Methane Conversion work highlighted by "Chem.&Eng. News"

One of our recent research works, “Direct Observation of the Active Center for Methane Dehydroaromatization Using an Ultrahigh Field 95Mo NMR Spectroscopy”, has been published on JACS, 26th March. Ultrahigh field NMR has been used to observe different types of molybdenum species over Mo/HZSM-5 catalysts. It is concluded that at least two types of molybdenum species (the exchanged Mo species and molybdenum oxide nanocrystallites) exist on the surface of catalysts. The exchanged Mo species are the active centers for the methane dehydroaromatization reaction. This research is able to let the audience in this field to know what ultrahigh field NMR can do for the traditionally "difficult" nuclei particularly in the real heterogeneous catalysis systems. Chem.& Eng. News highlighted the publication of this article in its Science & Technology Concentrates of current issue. (http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/86/i11/html/8611scic.html#2)