Rotational and steric effects in water dissociative chemisorption on Ni(111)

@article{Jiang2017RotationalAS,
  title={Rotational and steric effects in water dissociative chemisorption on Ni(111)},
  author={Bin Jiang},
  journal={Chemical Science},
  year={2017},
  volume={8},
  pages={6662 - 6669},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6357102}
}
Weak rotational but significant steric effects are predicted in water dissociative chemisorption on Ni(111) based on X-ray diffraction analysis.
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