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Researchers transformed a leaf skeleton into iron carbide

By Damir Beciri
One Comment25 September 2010

iron-carbide-leafNature’s fine structures are also suitable for technical applications because they exist in a numerous variety of forms, they usually display high mechanical stability and, due to their large surfaces, they provide suitable templates for catalysts and electrodes. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam have succeeded in converting the… »