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Communicating catalysts

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The beauty and activity of enzymes inspire chemists to tailor new and better non-biological catalysts. Now, a study reveals that the active sites within heterogeneous catalysts actively cooperate in a fashion phenomenologically similar to, but mechanistically distinct, from enzymes.

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Fig. 1: Monitoring communicating catalysts using single-molecule spectroscopy.
Fig. 2: Intraparticle and interparticle communication.

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