An graduate student in chemical and biological engineering

Source text:

“The catalytic activity of Pt nano-particles is highly dependent on their surface structures. Surface defects, that is, step and kink atoms with low coordination numbers (CN<8), usually exhibit very high chemical reactivity and catalytic activity for most structure- sensitive reactions…”

Source:

Z.-Y. Zhou, Z.-Z. Huang, D.-J. Chen, Q. Wang, N. Tian, and S.-G. Sun, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 49, 411 (2010).

Writer’s text:

It is known that the surface defects such as steps and kinks enhance the catalytic activity of Pt for ORR [43].

Writer’s comment:

I eliminated the part of the low coordination numbers, because I didn’t want the focus of the reader to be on what the coordination was, which is they are writing their papers. So that it becomes related to my work.