Breaking linear scaling relationships with transition metal carbides

Transition metal carbides (TMCs) are proposed as catalysts and supports for small metal particles to replace expensive late transition metals as heterogeneous catalysts. High-throughput screening based on density functional theory shows that TMCs break the limitations that the linear scaling relations impose to transition metals.

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Transition metal carbides (TMCs) are proposed as catalysts and supports for small metal particles to replace expensive late transition metals as heterogeneous catalysts. High-throughput screening based on density functional theory shows that TMCs break the limitations that the linear scaling relations impose to transition metals.