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Nature Materials 8, 585–589 (1 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/nmat2466

Local ordering and electronic signatures of submonolayer water on anatase TiO2(101)

Yunbin He , Antonio Tilocca , Olga Dulub , Annabella Selloni & Ulrike Diebold

The interaction of water with metal oxide surfaces is of fundamental importance to various fields of science, ranging from geophysics to catalysis and biochemistry. In particular, the discovery that TiO2 photocatalyses the dissociation of water has triggered broad interest and intensive studies of water adsorption on TiO2 over decades.