“…In those investigations, the focus was to investigate the growth mechanisms, interfacial properties, and the surface evolution of the metal’s electronic states. ,,− Other studies of thin Cu films deposited via PVD probed the properties of the Cu/MgO interface. − These earlier investigations of the Cu/MgO, ,, as well as other systems, ,, are of fundamental importance because they provide information about the catalyst–metal oxide support interactions and its role in heterogeneous catalysis. While some examples of PVD-based deposition studies on metal oxides have been reported previously, , a new deposition method for the Cu/MgO system is described below and serves as the platform for a comprehensive, fundamental study of the physicochemical properties of metal-decorated, structurally well-defined metal oxide nanomaterials.…”