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Chem. Commun., 2008, 6528 - 6530, DOI: 10.1039/b815335c

Facile synthesis of carbon nanotube/natural bentonite composites as a stable catalyst for styrene synthesis

Ali Rinaldi, Jian Zhang, Jan Mizera, Frank Girgsdies, Ning Wang, Sharifah Bee Abd Hamid, Robert Schlögl and Dang Sheng Su

Natural bentonite mineral, without any wet chemical treatment, was used directly to catalyze the growth of multi-wall CNTs and the produced CNTs/bentonite as an integrated composite stably catalyzed the oxidative dehydrogenation reaction over a long period of time; this concept provides a highly economical way for large-scale synthesis of nanocarbons and manufacture of styrene synthesis catalysts.

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