The Interior
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For decades, catalysis assumed reactions happen at surfaces. A Nature paper tracked oxygen atoms moving from five layers deep inside a crystal to participate in the reaction above. Three other fields just discovered the same thing about their interiors. Oxygen atoms five layers deep inside a titanium dioxide crystal are not supposed to do anything. They are bulk. Scaffolding. The inert interior behind the surface where the real chemistry happens. For decades, catalysis theory
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For decades, catalysis assumed reactions happen at surfaces. A Nature paper tracked oxygen atoms moving from five layers deep inside a crystal to participate in the reaction above. Three other fields just discovered the same thing about their interiors. Oxygen atoms five layers deep inside a titanium dioxide crystal are not supposed to do anything. They are bulk. Scaffolding. The inert interior behind the surface where the real chemistry happens. For decades, catalysis theory
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