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Hybrid catalyst to the rescue

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A hybrid carbon nanotube/molecular catalyst achieves highly selective electrochemical conversion of CO to methanol via mechanistic-guided optimizations.

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Fig. 1: CO to CH3OH electroconversion catalysed by a hybrid CoPc-NH2/CNT catalyst.

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Costentin, C. Hybrid catalyst to the rescue. Nat. Synth 2, 1134–1135 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-023-00391-7

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