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Symbiotic oxides in catalysts

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Suppressing the formation of oxide encapsulation layers on the active metal during pretreatment would lead to increased catalytic activity in supported catalysts, but controlling the strong metal-support interactions is challenging. Now it is shown that cleverly introducing TiOx patches onto Ru/MnO allows engineering effective oxide–oxide interface channels and avoids oxide overlayer formation, thus improving the performance of CO2 hydrogenation to produce CO.

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Fig. 1: Types of supported metal catalyst.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials MOE, Jilin University, Changchun, China

    Yuhua Liu & Wei Zhang

  2. School of Materials Science & Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China

    Yuhua Liu & Wei Zhang

  3. Jilin Provincial International Cooperation Key Laboratory of High–Efficiency Clean Energy Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, China

    Wei Zhang

  4. Electron Microscopy Center, Jilin University, Changchun, China

    Wei Zhang

  5. International Center of Future Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China

    Wei Zhang

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Liu, Y., Zhang, W. Symbiotic oxides in catalysts. Nat Catal 6, 985–986 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-023-01059-3

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