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CO oxidation

Poison control

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A combined theoretical and experimental approach has been used to improve catalysts for the selective oxidation of carbon monoxide in hydrogen feedstocks.

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  • 21 May 2010

    In the version of this highlight originally published online, the catalyst surface with weakest CO binding was wrongly identified; this has now been corrected.

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  1. Nilekar, A. U., Alayoglu, S., Eichhorn, B. & Mavrikakis, M. Preferential CO oxidation in hydrogen: reactivity of core–shell nanoparticles. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 10.1021/ja101108w (2010).

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Armstrong, G. Poison control. Nature Chem (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.704

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