Researchers from Arizona State University, the University of California, Davis, Washington State University, the University of Science and Technology of China, and the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center in Taiwan have developed a new method to anchor single atoms of platinum-group metals on nanometer-sized islands, which could allow the efficient use of these expensive metals as catalysts for a wide variety of applications. The numerous islands lie on a commercial silicon-dioxide support that is widely used in many common catalytic reactions, but the metal atoms are excluded from the support.
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