Heterogeneities of individual catalyst particles in space and time as monitored by spectroscopy

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 873-886

  Buurmans, Inge L C ^a   Weckhuysen, Bert M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; POROSITY; REVIEW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYSIS; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDES; POROSITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867891552     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1478     Document Type: Review

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