Chemists Create Flexible Polymer Gels From Caffeine
Caffeine is well-known for its ability to help people stay alert, but a team of researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has now…
Catalysts
Chemists Discover a New Way to Work with Heterogeneous Catalysts
Scientists have found a new way to work with heterogeneous catalysts, which are key chemical drivers in the development of energy technology and the production…
New Device Stores Energy in Chemical Form Through Continuous Electrolysis
Interest in renewable energy continues to burgeon. Many renewables, though, can be frustratingly intermittent – when the sun stops shining, or the wind stops blowing,…
New Catalyst Promotes Carbon Dioxide Conversion into Fuels
Scientists at MIT have developed a new catalyst material that provides design principles for producing fuels from carbon dioxide emissions. The findings suggest a route…
New Nanoparticle Catalysts Improve Reactivity with Much Less Platinum
Using an atomically-thin coating of noble metal over a tiny particle made of a much more abundant and inexpensive material, MIT engineers have developed new…
New Graphene Based Catalyst Shows Promise for Clean, Inexpensive Hydrogen Production
New research from Rice University reveals that graphene doped with nitrogen and augmented with cobalt atoms has proven to be an effective, durable catalyst for…
UJI Patents New Graphene-Based Catalysts
By combining graphene and organometallic compounds, researchers have developed graphene-based materials that can catalyze reactions for the conversion and storage of energy. Researchers at the…
New Chemical Catalysts Are Less Expensive and More Sustainable
Researchers from Yale University have developed a new family of chemical catalysts that are expected to lower the cost and boost the sustainability of the…
Newly Discovered Catalyst Could Lead to the Clean Production of Methanol
An international team of scientists has created a new nickel-gallium catalyst that could be used to convert hydrogen and carbon dioxide emissions into methanol. A…
Nanocatalyst Tolerates Carbon Monoxide in Fuel Cells, Transforms Impure Hydrogen into Electricity
Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a high-performing nanocatalyst that tolerates carbon monoxide in fuel cells, opening new, inexpensive pathways for zero-emission vehicles….
Cobalt-Graphene Catalyst Performs Nearly as Well as Platinum
Researchers at Brown University have developed a cheaper and more durable catalyst using graphene, cobalt, and cobalt-oxide nanoparticles that can catalyze the oxygen reduction reaction…
Dempsey’s Mechanism, Pathway that Catalysts Use to Generate Hydrogen
As scientists continue to search for alternatives to platinum catalysts, Caltech chemists have determined the dominant mechanism for cobalt catalysts, paving the way for the…
New Nanocomposite Material Looks to Improve Fuel Cells
Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have developed a more powerful and longer lasting fuel cell material by replacing the central part of…
Scientists Examine Platinum-Based Catalyst Design
Working as a team, scientists from SIMES and the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis studied two platinum-rhodium nanostructures, identifying the most active sites…
Nanorod Catalyst Provides Platinum Like Efficiency in MFCs at a Fraction of the Cost
Using nitrogen-enriched iron-carbon nanorods as a catalyst, engineers have demonstrated the same level of efficiency in microbial fuel cells as the more expensive platinum catalyst…
Searching for an Efficient Way to Make Methanol
Researchers from SLAC and Stanford have teamed with scientists at the Max Planck Institute to examine catalysts in an effort to find an efficient way…
Zeolite Catalyst Creates P-Xylene from Biomass
Chemical engineers at UMass Amherst have discovered a high-yield method of making plastic bottles from biomass. By using a zeolite catalyst capable of transforming glucose…
Working to Recycle Greenhouse Gases
Scientists around the world continue to study greenhouse gas emissions and researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute discovered findings that could lead to the recycling…