“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Rice University engineers have created a light-powered nanoparticle that could shrink the carbon footprint of a major segment of the chemical industry. The particle, tiny…
Chemists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a method that could turn plastic waste into valuable chemicals by using sunlight. In lab…
New catalyst efficiently produces hydrogen from seawater, holding promise for large-scale hydrogen production, desalination. Seawater is one of the most abundant resources on earth, offering…
Light at the end of the nanotunnel for future catalysts. Using a new type of nanoreactor, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded…
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) involves stacking layers of atoms on top of each other like pancakes. The atoms come from a vaporized material called a…
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have taken a giant stride towards solving a riddle that would provide the world with entirely renewable, clean energy from…
A Northwestern University research team has developed a new method for making highly desirable catalysts from metal nanoparticles that could lead to better fuel cells,…
Single atoms work great as catalysts, but they usually don’t stay single for long. Argonne scientists are part of a team that uses high-temperature shock…