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Faster and more energy-efficient: Catalysts boost hydrogen-based steel production

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Muglali, M. I.; Bashir, A.; Birkner, A.; Rohwerder, M.: Hydrogen as an optimum reducing agent for metallization of self-assembled monolayers. Journal of Materials Chemistry 22 (29), pp. 14337 - 14340 (2012)

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Original publication

X. Chen, B. Bienvenu, T. Yang, B. Gault, S.L. Wei, X. Zhou, D. Raabe

Solid-solid catalysis for sustainable alloy synthesis.

Nature Synthesis DOI: 10.1038/s44160-026-01086-5

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