Chemical engineering researchers have developed a new catalyst that significantly increases yield in styrene manufacturing, while simultaneously reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions….
Novel Catalyst Material Could Enable Better Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Power Next-Gen Electronics At the heart of most electronics today are rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). But their…
Chemical manufacturers frequently use toxic solvents such as alcohols and benzene to make products like pharmaceuticals and plastics. Researchers are examining a previously overlooked and…
New method for generating the least accessible form of vicinal aminoalcohols; study published in Nature Catalysis. Whether in beta-blockers to treat high blood pressure or…
New design could speed reaction rates in electrochemical systems for pulling carbon out of power plant emissions. Systems for capturing and converting carbon dioxide from…
Fast, one-step assembly at room temperature yields high efficiency at low cost. Seawater makes up about 96% of all water on earth, making it a…
Lowering the Combustion Temperature for Methane Natural gas is the cleanest traditional fossil fuel source because it produces relatively low amounts of pollutants like carbon…
Efficiently mass-producing hydrogen from water is closer to becoming a reality thanks to Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers and collaborators at Cornell University…
By some estimates, the amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the earth in one year is greater than the sum of all the…
Scientists have broken the rules of enzyme engineering to unlock a new method for creating chemical reactions that could unlock a wide range of new…
Scientists from Nagoya University have achieved a breakthrough in converting energy-deficient metabolites to a biorenewable resource thanks to a versatile catalyst. The imminent environmental crisis…
Activity of the industrial catalyst TS-1 relies on titanium pairs/Important discovery for catalyst development. ‘Titanium silicalite-1’ (TS-1) is not a new catalyst: It has been…
New ultra-efficient catalyst can recycle old cooking oil into biodiesel and turn food scraps into high-value complex molecules. Researchers have developed a powerful, low-cost method…
Are you affected by your neighbors? So are nanoparticles in catalysts. New research from Chalmers, published in the journals Science Advances and Nature Communications, reveals…
A team of scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) together with their colleagues from Austria, Turkey, Slovakia, Russia (MISIS, MSU), and the UK found…
Lower-cost Production Thanks to Optimized Distribution of Atoms Billions of noble metal catalysts are used worldwide for the production of chemicals, energy generation, or cleaning…
Study: Pointed tips on aluminum ‘octopods’ increase catalytic reactivity. Points matter when designing nanoparticles that drive important chemical reactions using the power of light. Researchers…
A research team from Caltech and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has demonstrated a promising way to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into ethylene —…