Max Delferro, DOE/Argonne National Laboratory (IMAGE)

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Max Delferro, DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

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Argonne chemist Max Delferro has developed an unusually active form of vanadium for hydrogenation reactions. Vanadium an inexpensive common metal that could replace some of the precious metals currently found in catalysts used in these reactions, frequently used in processing of petrochemicals.

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