Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of Catalysts at Work
Chemists at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) have developed a new method using X-ray microscopy to observe catalysts in action. A report on their work is published in the 13 November edition of the journal Nature. Gaining insight into the mechanisms of heterogeneous catalysts could lead to improved or novel catalysts. So far, scanning probe microscopy methods have been used to study inorganic catalyst phases at sub-nanometer resolution, but detailed chemical information of the materials in