Surface frustrated Lewis pairs in perovskite enhance photocatalytic non-oxidative conversion of ethane

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFF0502000) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52372233), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2024M762820).

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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