Bridging nanoscience and surface science to understand heterogeneous catalysis

Recent results concerning the adsorption of NO and CO molecules, metallic clusters were used to establish a link between the adsorption mode and the behaviour of monometallic clusters following the adsorption process of these molecules. Regarding the NO molecule, the use of this energetic model enabled the behaviour of the different transition metals to be predicted, the effect of the support to be considered, a bimetallic system to be selected and a discussion of the catalytic activity regarding simple gase mixtures.