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Golden touch of the nanoparticles

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A combination of two different types of sites shows high catalytic performance for selective hydrogenation due to hydrogen spillover.

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Fig. 1: The phenylacetylene semi-hydrogenation mechanism over Pd1/Cu(111) (left) and Pd1/Cu(100) (right).

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