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Title: Enhanced alcohol production over binary Mo/Co carbide catalysts in syngas conversion

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [1];  [4]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
  4. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL); Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (Germany)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1769044
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1669710
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; ECCS-1542152
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Catalysis
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 391; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9517
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Syngas conversion; metal carbides; amorphous catalysts; in situ XAS; in situ DRIFTS

Citation Formats

Asundi, Arun S., Hoffman, Adam S., Chi, Miaofang, Nathan, Sindhu S., Boubnov, Alexey, Hong, Jiyun, Bare, Simon R., and Bent, Stacey F. Enhanced alcohol production over binary Mo/Co carbide catalysts in syngas conversion. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1016/j.jcat.2020.09.003.
Asundi, Arun S., Hoffman, Adam S., Chi, Miaofang, Nathan, Sindhu S., Boubnov, Alexey, Hong, Jiyun, Bare, Simon R., & Bent, Stacey F. Enhanced alcohol production over binary Mo/Co carbide catalysts in syngas conversion. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2020.09.003
Asundi, Arun S., Hoffman, Adam S., Chi, Miaofang, Nathan, Sindhu S., Boubnov, Alexey, Hong, Jiyun, Bare, Simon R., and Bent, Stacey F. Fri . "Enhanced alcohol production over binary Mo/Co carbide catalysts in syngas conversion". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2020.09.003. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1769044.
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