Electrochemical activation of catalysis

Electrochemical activation of catalysis

F O C U S complex, is conducted in a continuous two-phase tubular reactor US 6,492,564, 10 Dec 2002, OXENO Olefinchemie GmbH, Marl, Germany O N C AT...

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F O C U S complex, is conducted in a continuous two-phase tubular reactor US 6,492,564, 10 Dec 2002, OXENO Olefinchemie GmbH, Marl, Germany

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2003. The text is already available on the Internet to authorised users, and contents and abstracts may be viewed freely. It contains a word search facility. Website: www.interscience.wiley.com/reference

BOOKSHELF Electrochemical activation of catalysis

This new 4-volume work is expected to be published in book form early in

Probably the first book on this subject, by five Greek authors. The subject is

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Encyclopedia of catalysis

also known by the acronym NEMCA – non-faradaic electrochemical modification of catalytic activity. J O’M Bockris writes in the introduction “it is likely to remain the standard work on this remarkable new technology”. The last 16 pages address applications, but these are not imminent. C G Vayenas et al, 2001, Kluwer Academic, Dondrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-306-46719-4, 610 pp, £81

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