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  • noun chemistry Either of a pair of cooperative catalysts that improve each others catalytic activity

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  • It is mainly used as a cocatalyst in the industrial production of polyethylene and for the production of medium chain alcohols.

    IOL: News 2010

  • Depiction of sunlight-driven photocatalytic carbon dioxide conversion to hydrocarbon fuels using nitrogen-doped titania nanotube arrays surface-loaded with Cu and / or Pt cocatalyst nanoparticles.

    Green Car Congress 2009

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