Carbon monoxide in color

A.V. Matveev

The G. K. Boreskov prize traditionally awarded to young scientists of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) aged under 35 was awarded last year to the researcher of the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, Candidate of Chemistry Andrey Matveev. This distinguished prize was awarded to him for the cycle of studies collectively entitled "Experimental and theoretical investigation of the nature of critical phenomena in catalytic CO oxidation on palladium: hysteresis, oscillations, chemical waves". The prize winner and his co-authors have managed to show that the unusual phenomena during CO oxidation are caused by the two forms of oxygen: "usual" form adsorbed on the palladium surface and a special "subsurface" form resulting from the diffusion of the oxygen atoms into the topmost layer of the catalyst