MIT chemists have designed a new type of photoredox catalyst that could make it easier to incorporate light-driven reactions into continuous flow manufacturing processes. The…
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Visual of two variations of the catalyst, with a segment of the shell removed to show the interior. The white sphere represents the silica shell,…
Snowflakes etched in graphene at Skoltech. The light areas are graphene, and the dark ones are oxidized copper. The snowflake pattern emerged as the surrounding…
Waste carbon from farms, sewage and other sources can be processed into high-grade bio-based fuels more easily with a new PNNL-developed flow cell. In this…
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a faster, less expensive technique for producing hindered amines – a class of chemicals used as building…
Palladium oxide catalyst cleans up emissions and enhances water vapor tolerance. A newly developed catalyst with unique, atomic-sized “rafts” does a better job than current…
MIT chemists discovered a way to incorporate phosphorus into three-membered ring compounds, using this “spring-loaded” molecule as the source of phosphorus. Credit: Courtesy of the…
Prospects to leverage overcoming the limitations of ‘zinc-air batteries’, promising next-generation batteries. Developed bifunctional electrocatalyst with staggered p-n heterojunction applying solar cell/semiconductor interface characteristics. Zinc-air…
Yogesh Surendranath and his team are bringing powerful techniques of electrochemistry to bear on the problem of designing catalysts for sustainable fuels. One challenge in…
A new sustainable and practical method for producing hydrogen from water has been discovered by a team of researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable…
Proposed possible mechanism for the electrochemical CO2RR on (a) [email protected] NRs and (b,c) asymmetric AuAgCu NSs. Credit: Nano Research Chemists have developed a nano-scale structure…
Artist’s impression of a hypersonic plane. Credit: Hermeus Ultra-efficient 3D printed catalysts could help solve the challenge of overheating in hypersonic aircraft and offer a…
Nanoparticles (top image) efficiently break down pollutants and are magnetic, making them easily recoverable for reuse (bottom image). Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials &…
A nitrogen assembly catalyzes the cleavage of carbon-hydrogen (C‒H) bonds in LOHCs and facilitates the desorption of hydrogen molecules. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames…
Gary Moore and his colleagues describe the use of ring-shaped molecules known as porphyrins, seen in this graphic. Such molecules, among the most abundant pigments…
A simple, low-cost method of directly converting natural gas into useful chemicals and fuels, using the precious metal gold as a key ingredient, has been…
The cage was engineered with amino acid replacements by introducing site-specific mutations that allowed more IrCp* uptake. Credit: Takafumi Ueno from Tokyo Institute of Technology…
This illustration features a cryo-EM “map” of the photosystem II complex. It is a 3D reconstruction, based on two-dimensional cryo-EM images, with different protein subunits…