The world’s plastics, fuels, and countless everyday chemicals begin with a deceptively simple chemical transformation: stripping hydrogen from saturated hydrocarbon molecules known as paraffins to produce olefins, the reactive building blocks of modern industry. Yet the catalysts that drive this reaction, typically platinum particles promoted with tin and dispersed on alumina supports, have long been […]
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