The Best Catalyst Particles: Cubes Outperform Spheres
Making electrolysis competitive. In the fight against climate change, the reduction of CO2 emissions is crucial. Currently, grey hydrogen, produced from oil and natural gas,…
Making electrolysis competitive. In the fight against climate change, the reduction of CO2 emissions is crucial. Currently, grey hydrogen, produced from oil and natural gas,…
Light-Driven CO2 Assimilation by Photosystem II and Its Relation to Photosynthesis Photosynthesis is the greatest natural process converting sunlight into chemical energy on a massive…
A catalyst activated by light converts hydrogen sulfide into hydrogen energy in one step. Engineers and scientists at Rice University have developed a sweet way for…
A tenfold increase in electron holography sensitivity exposes the net charge in a single platinum nanoparticle with a precision of just one electron. If you…
Inexpensive catalyst uses energy from light to turn ammonia into hydrogen fuel. A key light-activated nanomaterial for the hydrogen economy has been engineered by researchers…
Theory-guided development of an easier, more versatile process for synthesizing unsymmetric ligands provides new avenues of exploration in transitional metal catalysis. Scientists have discovered the…
A cheap and chemically durable catalyst to synthesize ammonia. The Haber-Bosch process, which is often used to synthesize ammonia (NH3)—the foundation for synthetic nitrogen fertilizers—by…
New achievements of layered double hydroxides toward efficient, stable, fast oxygen evolution reaction. Scientists in China have made advancements in the use of layered double…
Scientists have demonstrated the use of controllably synthesized single-atom catalysts (SACs) to depict the relationship between electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) performance and single-atom (SA)…
University of Chicago breakthrough creates methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide, and water. Humans have relied on fossil fuels for concentrated energy for the past…
MIT Assistant Professor Ariel Furst and her colleagues are looking to DNA to help guide the process. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a significant product of…
New technology could divert problem plastics from landfills and convert them into fuel sources. A plastics recycling innovation that does more with less simultaneously increases…
The commercialization of eco-friendly fuel has been stalled for decades by the high cost of platinum, but a study indicates that the low-cost catalyst may…
Scientists from the University of Birmingham have revealed a new method to increase efficiency in biocatalysis. Their method is described in a paper published today…
A new hydrogen fuel cell has been developed by scientists at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Not only is it the…
An international team of researchers has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, commonly called natural gas, into liquid methanol at ambient temperature…
Converting CO2 to Formic Acid Using an Alumina-Supported, Iron-Based Compound Photoreduction of CO2 into transportable fuel like formic acid (HCOOH) is a great way of…
Catalysts are substances that can speed up chemical reactions, which is very important for industrial chemistry. However, for some reactions, platinum makes an excellent catalysts,…