Stefania Baronio

1. Introduction Click to copy section linkSection link copied! The adsorption properties of CO on single-crystal metal surfaces are a core topic in model catalysis. Numerous studies in the past decades have investigated CO adsorption sites, geometries, desorption behavior and CO-induced surface reconstruction, primarily using ultrahigh vacuum (UHV)-based surface-sensitive spectroscopy and microscopy techniques.

1 Introduction Surface-confined metal-organic networks (SMONs) have been intensively studied in the last two decades, representing a unique class of 2D materials with applications in catalysis, gas sensing, magnetism, and molecular storage.[1-4] The numerous combinations of metal centers and molecular tectonics provide the opportunity to finely tune the physicochemical properties of these 2D materials, controlling, e.g., coordination geometries, oxidation states of the metallic centers,...