Nanoscale intimacy in bifunctional catalysts for selective conversion of hydrocarbons

Jovana Zecevic, Gina Vanbutsele, Krijn P. de Jong () and Johan A. Martens ()
Additional contact information
Jovana Zecevic: Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University
Gina Vanbutsele: Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven
Krijn P. de Jong: Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University
Johan A. Martens: Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven

Nature, 2015, vol. 528, issue 7581, 245-248

Abstract: The conversion of hydrocarbons to produce high-quality diesel fuel can be catalysed by bifunctional materials that contain a metal site and an acid site; it has been assumed that these sites should be as close as possible in order to enhance catalysis, but it is now shown that having them too close together can be detrimental to selectivity.

Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16173 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:528:y:2015:i:7581:d:10.1038_nature16173

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature16173

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().