New Electrocatalyst Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Liquid Fuel
New electrocatalyst efficiently converts carbon dioxide into ethanol. Catalysts speed up chemical reactions and form the backbone of many industrial processes. For example, they are…
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Converting Carbon Dioxide to Methanol Efficiently Using a Bioinspired Tandem Catalytic System
Encapsulating multiple molecular catalysts in nanoporous metal-organic frameworks central to efficient transformation. Converting carbon dioxide to methanol, a potentially renewable alternative fuel, offers an opportunity…
Turning Seawater Into Fuel With a Low-Cost Catalyst
For the first time, Rochester chemical engineers have demonstrated a ‘potassium-promoted’ catalyst’s potential for use on an industrial scale. Now, the Navy’s quest to power…
Scientists Home In on Pairs of Atoms That Boost a Catalyst’s Activity
They discovered the messy environment of a chemical reaction can actually change the shape of a catalytic nanoparticle in a way that makes it more…
Scientists Rip Apart Water Molecules More Efficiently With New Catalysts
Using a new approach, they were able to study and improve the water-dissociation reaction that rips apart water molecules in membrane-based electrochemical reactors. University of…
Fluorocarbon Bonds Are No Match for New Light-Powered Nanocatalyst
Lab Unveils Catalyst That Can Break Problematic C-F Bonds Rice University engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in…
New Environmentally-Friendly Method Developed for Removing Toxic Chemicals From Water
Researchers from Swansea University have developed a new environmentally friendly method for removing toxic chemicals from water. A newly invented machine, called the Matrix Assembly…
Ultrastable Catalyst Could Lead to More Efficient and Cheaper Production of Propylene From Propane
A group of Japanese scientists has developed an ultrastable, selective catalyst to dehydrogenate propane — an essential process to produce the key petrochemical substance of…
How a Widely Used Catalyst Splits Water Finally Explained at an Atomic Level
“Gold standard” material for generating oxygen from water divulges its molecular mechanisms. A crystalline compound called ruthenium dioxide is widely used in industrial processes, where…
Artificial Intelligence Helps Researchers Up-Cycle Waste Carbon With Record Efficiency
Researchers at University of Toronto Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University are using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate progress in transforming waste carbon into a commercially…
More Efficient, Environmentally Friendly Ethylene Production With New Catalyst
A research team led by North Carolina State University has engineered a new catalyst that can more efficiently convert ethane into ethylene, which is used…
New 2-D Catalyst Fits Two Co-Catalysts on One Nanosheet for Better Water Purification
A collaboration of scientists from the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE’s Brookhaven…
New Graphene–Carbon Nanotube Catalyst Could Ignite Clean Energy Revolution
Researchers developed a promising graphene–carbon nanotube catalyst, giving them better control over hugely important chemical reactions for producing hydrogen fuel. Fuel cells and water electrolyzers…
Catalyst Zeolite Nanopores Discovery May Lead to New Materials for Clean Energy and Carbon Capture
UMass Amherst researchers discover new building blocks of catalyst zeolite nanopores. Zeolites crystals, used among other things for refining petroleum to gasoline and biomass into…
Catalyst Produces Useful Hydrocarbons While Removing CO2
Water is split into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis, but if CO2 is also added to the mixture, compounds can be generated to make textiles,…
Artificial Photosynthesis Uses Sunlight to Recycle CO2 Into ‘Green Methane’
A new artificial photosynthesis approach uses sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into methane, which could help make natural-gas-powered devices carbon neutral. Methane is the main…
Ecofriendly Conversion of Methane Into Useful Gases Using Light Instead of Heat
Methane is present in the natural gas that is very abundant in the earth’s crust and has found many uses in modern applications, mainly as…
Atomic Tuning on Cobalt Enables an Eightfold Increase of Eco-Friendly H2O2 Production
Modulating single cobalt atoms boosts a low-cost, efficient, and eco-friendly electrochemical H2O2 production that can potentially benefit the semiconductor and medical industries. Just like we…