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Nature 430, 730 (12 August 2004) | doi:10.1038/430730a; Published online 11 August 2004
Concept On the move
Gabor A. Somorjai1
- Gabor A. Somorjai is in the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, and the Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Abstract
Heterogeneous catalysis: just as for enzymes, flexibility and mobility are emerging as key features of catalytically active metal surfaces.
Catalysts have the remarkable property of facilitating a chemical reaction repeatedly without being consumed. In principle (if not in practice), a catalyst can function as long as reactants are available.
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