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Reactions at Surfaces: From Atoms to Complexity (Nobel Lecture)^†

Gerhard Ertl Prof. Dr.,

Gerhard Ertl Prof. Dr.

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Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 14195 Berlin, Germany, Fax: (+49) 30-8413-5106

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Gerhard Ertl Prof. Dr.,

Gerhard Ertl Prof. Dr.

[email protected]

Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 14195 Berlin, Germany, Fax: (+49) 30-8413-5106

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First published: 21 April 2008

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200800480

Citations: 1,103

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Copyright© The Nobel Foundation 2007. We thank the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, for permission to print this lecture. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.angewandte.org or from the author.

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The spatio–temporal formation of patterns on the surface during a chemical reaction is one phenomenon that can now be understood and modeled thanks to the Nobel Prize winning research on the course of heterogeneous catalysis. The picture shows a pattern formed by a feedback mechanism during the oxidation of CO. Reactions that have been illuminated by this work include the synthesis of ammonia and the purification of waste gases.

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