In chemical processes for producing pharmaceuticals, catalysts are a core technology that determines production speed and ...

Offers insights into the material degradation process of carbon-based catalysts The importance of advancing electrochemical energy technologies to meet the world's energy needs in the coming decades ...

Solid catalysts underpin many of the large-scale chemical transformations used to manufacture modern materials, converting hydrocarbons — including renewable or recycled forms of carbon — into the ...

An illustration of a person in a lab coat looking at a picket fence. The field is various elements, metals specifically. Credit: Chris Gash On a summer day about 20 years ago, Paul Chirik returned to ...

A research team reports they have created an organic reaction called α-allylation with simple ketones and allyl alcohols.

Low-temperature CO2 hydrogenation might have sounded almost paradoxical until a recent study made it possible. Researchers have designed new catalysts that can transform the greenhouse gas into ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – To make fuel cells more affordable, researchers have spent decades searching for low-cost catalysts to replace platinum and other expensive metals. This includes experimenting with ...

Depolymerization process. By employing high pressure, reactor operators can achieve highly efficient depolymerization of polyethylene (PE) of varying densities or polypropylene (PP). The pressure ...

A research team from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Seoul National University has developed a new method to activate water-splitting catalysts at an oven temperature of just ...

In college chemistry, I learned that catalysts accelerate reactions while remaining unchanged. But human catalysts are different. Effective change agents inspire transformation in others by embracing ...