Hierarchically Macro-Mesoporous Pt/γ-Al2O3 composite microspheres for efficient formaldehyde oxidation at room temperature

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nie, Longhui ^a,c   Meng, Aiyun ^a   Yu, Jiaguo ^a   Jaroniec, Mietek ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84889574003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03215     Document Type: Article

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