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Characterization of Molybdenum Carbide Nanoparticles Formed on Au(111) Using Reactive-Layer Assisted Deposition Jillian M. Horn,†,‡ Zhen Song,† Denis V. Potapenko,† Jan Hrbek,† and Michael G. White*,†,‡ Chemistry Department, BrookhaVen National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, and Department of Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794 ReceiVed: NoVember 10, 2004; In Final Form: NoVember 30, 2004
Temperature programmed desorption (TPD), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) have been used to characterize molybdenum carbide nanoparticles prepared on a Au(111) substrate. The MoCx nanoparticles were formed by Mo metal deposition onto a reactive multilayer of ethylene, which was physisorbed on a Au(111) substrate at low temperatures (
