Researchers expand ways to improve the selectivity of catalytic reactions

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-ways-catalytic-reactions.html

"highly ordered, porous materials like butterfly wing structure, partially embeds nanoparticles into substrate, trapping them during catalysis, leaving rest of nanoparticles' surface exposed, enabling reactions' efficiency and without agglomeration... this trapping favors intermediate and not trapping favors end product... reduced energy consumption and waste generation... future: nanoparticle size impact on reaction at fixed distances between nanoparticles"

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