Probing single-atom alloys has shown that, when interactions between the components are weak, the electronic structure of the dilute element resembles that of a free atom, making bonding with reactants more like that in molecular homogeneous catalysts.
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Papp, C. Catalysis at the limit. Nature Chem 10, 995–996 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0143-3
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