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Sep 2, 2019

Single atoms as catalysts

Posted by in categories: particle physics, transportation

Incorporating individual metal atoms into a surface in the right way allows their chemical behavior to be adapted. This makes new, better catalysts possible.

They make our cars more environmentally friendly and they are indispensable for the : catalysts make certain chemical reactions possible—such as the conversion of CO into CO2 in car exhaust gases—that would otherwise happen very slowly or not at all. Surface physicists at the TU Wien have now achieved an important breakthrough; can be placed on a metal oxide surface so that they show exactly the desired . Promising results with iridium atoms have just been published in the renowned journal Angewandte Chemie.

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