cooperation related to the methanation project. Søren Dahl and Nan Topsøe from Haldor Topsøe are thanked for nice collaboration in relation to the SCR project. Within my private life in Denmark thanks is given to my family and friends-especially my parents, and my brother, Thomas, and my sister, Maria, should be mentioned here. A special thank is also given to Ulla, for always being a good friend, supportive and for listening to a lot of work/chemistry talk from time to time. My stay in the Netherlands has been one of the most inspiring and fruitful periods of my PhD. I am grateful to a lot of people for contributing to this. First of all to Professor Krijn de Jong who let me visit him and his research group at Universiteit Utrecht. From the first day I enjoyed the friendly, well-structured and intellectually inspiring atmosphere. I would also like to thank Associated Professor Harry Bitter for his interest in my work and for fruitful discussions. Special thanks should be given to Johan for showing me how everything works in the lab, being nice working together with and for helping with practical problems that arise when being in another country-including help with correcting and improving my Dutch. I would also like to thank Cor for helping with and explaining the TEM experiments. A few PhD students, Mariska, Adjan, Niels, Paul and Emiel, who have been extremely helpful with respect to experimental problems when needed, should be mentioned here too. Finally, I would like to thank all members of the Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis group at Utrecht Universiteit for making my stay at the university a great time in coffee-breaks, at borrels etc. My social life outside work would not have been so cheerful if I had not met so many nice and kind Dutch people. I really appreciate both the company and the friendly help to correct and help me when speaking Dutch (and for talking English with me, when needed). Thus, I would like to thank all those who have contributed to making my time in Utrecht joyful. Furthermore, I would like to thank Kemisk Forenings Rejsefond, Otto Mønsteds Fond and Oticon Fonden for making my stay in the Netherlands economically possible.