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Anchoring Single Atoms

2021-09-05

Anchoring Single Atoms

How can single atoms be used for catalysis? Researchers from Vienna develop a new method to anchor single atoms to supports. There is a dictum to “never change a running system”. New methods can however be far superior to older ones. While to date chemical reactions are mainly accelerated by catalytic materials that comprise several hundreds of atoms, the use of single atoms could provide a new...