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Science 9 February 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5250, pp. 774 - 775
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5250.774
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Perspectives

Joachim Sauer

Solid catalysts are widely used for chemical processes in industry, but much is still unknown about how they work on a microscopic level. In his Perspective, Sauer comments on work reported by Smith et al. in the same issue, in which water molecules were used as probes of the catalytic active sites.

The author is with the Max Planck Society, Quantum Chemistry Research Unit, Humboldt University, D-10117 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: js@qc.ag-berlin.mpg.de




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