Death of a Catalyst (IMAGE)

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Death of a Catalyst

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These coffin-shaped growths make up one variety of porous materials called zeolites. An international team of scientists discovered that when aluminum atoms in the material cluster in the overlapping intersections of these sub-units, zeolites lose their ability to convert oil to gasoline and other chemicals.

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