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Reply to: Primary role of photothermal heating in light-driven reduction of nitroarenes

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Fig. 1: Time dependence of the TOF of the CuFeS2 catalyst as the time and yield of the reaction increase, based on additional experiments performed.

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Cheruvathoor Poulose, A., Zoppellaro, G., Konidakis, I. et al. Reply to: Primary role of photothermal heating in light-driven reduction of nitroarenes. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 327–328 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01353-y

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