https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-025-01809-3
Regular Article
Selforganization on catalytic surfaces: from simple to complex systems and from UHV experiments to “real catalysis”
Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Callinstrasse 3A, 30167, Hannover, Germany
Received:
28
April
2025
Accepted:
11
July
2025
Published online:
23
July
2025
The study of spatiotemporal patterns and rate oscillations on single crystal surfaces is considered to be a typical surface science project with practically no connection to industrial catalysis. Using a few selected examples, it will be shown that this view, though superficially justified, is wrong and misleading. Both fields, selforganization and catalysis are in fact closely connected by the same conditions of being far from thermodynamic equilibrium and by the same dynamics.
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