Catalytic activity in individual cracking catalyst particles imaged throughout different life stages by selective staining

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 862-867

  Buurmans, Inge L C ^a   Ruiz Martínez, Javier ^a   Knowles, William V ^b   Van Der Beek, David ^b   Bergwerff, Jaap A ^b   Vogt, Eelco T C ^b   Weckhuysen, Bert M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Albemarle Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; FLUORESCENT DYE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; ZEOLITE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; STAINING;

ACIDS; CATALYSIS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; STAINING AND LABELING; THIOPHENES; ZEOLITES;

EID: 80155155912     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1148     Document Type: Article

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