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Growing catalysts

Porous materials are involved in many chemical reactions that affect our daily lives. Despite their wide use, there is little knowledge about them. An international team of researchers have just shed new light on how these materials organize themselves when they are created. Their experiments at the ESRF combined three different techniques in real time, with the aim of viewing a full picture of the process. This new information could help improve their synthesis in the future.

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