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Swapping an oxygen vacancy's charge state flips how ZrO2 reduces oxygen
A template-assisted synthesis gave two ZrO2 samples with the same crystal structure and oxygen vacancies in different charge states. In situ EPR then caught the electropositive centre binding O2 and cleaving the bond.
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