The phrase "acting as catalyst" is not entirely correct; it should be "acting as a catalyst." You can use it when describing someone or something that facilitates or accelerates a process or change.
Example: "The new policy is acting as a catalyst for innovation within the organization."
Alternatives: "serving as a catalyst" or "functioning as a catalyst."
And the BAILs showed bifunctional properties acting as catalyst and solvent.
Without the technically complex and expensive CO-shift step, raw syngas cleaning would be limited to the much cheaper removal of undesired trace constituents, acting as catalyst poisons.
This suggests that the metalation activity associates with the peroxidase-like one, so that there is a common residue acting as catalyst for both reactions.
Experiments were performed in which the benefits of flow through the large interconnecting cavities in structured metal foams (acting as catalyst supports) could be better understood.
The use of whole-cell biocatalysis can reduce process cost by acting as catalyst and cofactor regenerator at the same time; however, product yields might be limited by cofactor availability within the cell.
Since catalytic activity of ferrites decays along cycles, the activity of the solid has been enhanced with the aid of small proportions of nickel aluminate with over-stoichiometric nickel oxide acting as catalyst.
Photocatalytic hydrogen production was tested in the presence of methanol as sacrificial agent after loading the bismuth titanates with nanoparticles of platinum acting as co-catalysts.
Third, with European institutions acting as catalysts, political leaders will need to reinforce efforts to place the eurozone as a whole on a firm footing.
A yes vote could also be an opportunity for new policy thinking, in particular building on the idea of housing associations as anchor organisations, assisting with regeneration and acting as catalysts to improve neighbourhoods and communities.
Instead, they are caused by misshapen brain proteins (prions) which have the strange characteristic of acting as catalysts that cause normal versions of the protein to reconfigure themselves as prions.
Nickel, cobalt or iron nanoparticles are usually acting as catalysts for the synthesis of SWCNTs and MWCNTs.
