Creating Nanoislands for Better Platinum Catalysts (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Creating Nanoislands for Better Platinum Catalysts

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Platinum is a useful as a catalyst for industrial chemistry. UC Davis researchers have developed a new technique to trap clusters of a few platinum atoms (white arrow on right) in nanometer-scale islands of cerium oxide (yellow circle) on a silica surface. The method could be used to produce more efficient and robust catalysts.

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Yizhen Chen, UC Davis

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