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Nature Chemistry (20 February 2009) | doi:10.1038/nchem.161

Platinum corrosion: A common layer

Anne Pichon

Halogens are commonly used to initiate changes on platinum surfaces for the preparation of catalysts. They are also involved in electrode etching, a selective corrosion process used to prepare devices such as semiconductors — but the halogen–platinum interactions remain unclear.