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Cobalt oxide

Nanomaterials Up Close: Cobalt oxide superlattice

23 Jun 2014

These individual particles of cobalt oxide have been engineered to form a superlattice or 3D mesh structure to improve their chemical activity...

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Bubbles in air

Scientists produce H2 for fuel cells using an inexpensive catalyst under real-world conditions

23 Aug 2012

One of the first stages of developing the new renewable energy source under an industrially relevant environment.

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Fool's Gold (iron pyrite)

A mineral way to catalysis?

10 Feb 2012

Fool’s Gold may prove an unlikely alternative to overexploited catalytic materials.

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A palladium catalyst in action

Synthesis made simpler

01 Nov 2010

Research is bringing closer the conversion of simple organic molecules into drugs, plastics or potential new fuels in a single step.

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