Evaluation of the silver species nature in Ag-ITQ2 zeolites by the CO oxidation reaction

The authors thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through RTI2018-101784-B-I00 (MINECO/FEDER) and SEV-2016-0683 projects for the financial support. We gratefully acknowledge ALBA synchrotron for allocating beamtime (proposal 2015091414) and the CLAESS beamline staff for their help and technical support during our experiment. CG and NB thank the TUW Innovative Project GIP165CDGC. CG, SP, VT, NB and GR are thankful for financial support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through projects DK+ Solids4Fun (W1243) and ComCat (I 1041-N28). I. Lopez Hernandez is grateful to Generalitat Valenciana and European Social Fund for the pre doctoral grant ACIF2017.López-Hernández, I.; García Yago, CI.; Truttmann, V.; Pollit, S.; Barrabés, N.; Rupprechter, G.; Rey Garcia, F.... (2020). Evaluation of the silver species nature in Ag-ITQ2 zeolites by the CO oxidation reaction. 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