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Volume 7 Issue 2, February 2024

Oscillating through oxygen phases

In their work, Thomas Lunkenbein, Luis Sandoval-Diaz and colleagues study the dry reforming of methane on a nickel catalyst with in situ techniques, which reveal oscillatory kinetics through atomic surface oxygen, subsurface oxygen and bulk nickel oxide phases, with markedly different catalytic properties.

See Sandoval-Diaz et al.

Image: MPG-FHI/Luis Sandoval-Diaz. Cover design: Alex Whitworth

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