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Fuel for thought

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 772–774 (2008)Cite this article

The worlds of nanotechnology and energy meet to unveil a realm of functional materials for fuelling the challenge of low-carbon, sustainable energy.

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Figure 1: Nanomaterials have a central role in many approaches addressing the energy challenge.

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  1. Robert Schloegl is in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany. acsek@fhi-berlin.mpg.de,

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