Scientists have demonstrated a promising new approach for converting methane -- the primary component of natural gas -- into ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Imagine that a new lifesaving medication is invented, but its unusual structure makes it difficult to manufacture. The drug might turn out to be prohibitively expensive or ...

Researchers have outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heterogeneous catalysis to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the so-called 'forever chemicals' that have contaminated ...

Recently, the research team of Tierui Zhang from the Institute of Chemistry and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a Mini-Review titled "Innovative and Sustainable Approaches to Aerobic ...

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 ...

Bert M. Weckhuysen has a dream. Someday he’d like to produce a movie showing what happens on a catalytic solid at a submolecular level. That dream remains out of reach, he admits. But after more than ...

Researchers have used gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines. Re-using gold from electronic waste prevents it from being lost to ...

The first magnesium-based electride has been synthesised by researchers in Norway, Poland and Spain. Electrides are of interest to materials scientists as they hold free-floating electrons in internal ...

Colloidal nanoparticle catalysts are considered to be semi-heterogeneous (or quasi-homogeneous) due to their homogeneous characteristics (kinetic efficiency) accompanied by their heterogeneous surface ...

When a catalyst and its substrate get in contact, they become involved in a series of weak attractive interactions that are preparatory to the real catalytic event that is the stabilization of an ...

We describe a novel method to prepare a liquid–solid hybrid catalyst via interfacial growth of a porous silica crust around Pickering emulsion droplets, which allowed us to overcome the current ...