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The stream of change

Fluctuations in the composition of reactant gas mixtures often lead to activity and selectivity variations in automotive catalysts. Now, time-resolved operando spectroscopy sheds light on the transient changes of surface species for a commercially applied catalyst and leads to process optimization.

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Fig. 1: Changes under transient conditions.

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Gao, F., Szanyi, J. The stream of change. Nat Catal 1, 174–175 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-018-0039-z

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