As the climate crisis becomes a part of daily life with unprecedented heat waves and cold snaps, technology to effectively remove greenhouse gases is emerging as a critical global challenge. In ...

Professor Paul Chirik leads a lab researching potential new catalysts for pharmaceutical and commercial applications.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported a breakthrough in nickel catalysis that harnesses a ...

Catalytic hydroboration has emerged as a versatile and indispensable reaction in modern synthetic chemistry. By utilising metal catalysts—from early transition metals and base‐metals to s‑block ...

C16 n-alkanes was investigated over microsphere catalysts with varying surface acidity and ZSM-5 as the active components.

Researchers have developed a plasma-catalytic system using Ag/ZnO catalyst which significantly enhances the reverse water-gas shift reaction. The plasma catalytic system achieved a remarkable CO₂ ...

A simple new technique could boost the efficiency of some key chemical processing, by up to a factor of 100,000, researchers report. The reactions are at the heart of petrochemical processing, ...

Bifunctional catalysis employs catalysts that possess two distinct active sites—often an acid and a base—that act in concert to activate different substrates within a single reaction. In aldol ...

Researchers have found that manganese, an abundant and inexpensive metal, can be used to efficiently convert carbon dioxide ...

AMES, Iowa – Researchers have been studying the industrial production of ammonia for a century. But they’ve struggled to find ways to improve the low-yield, low-efficiency process. Atmospheric ...

Market valued at $27.64B in 2024, projected 3.94% CAGR growth driven by petroleum refining, green chemistry, biocatalysts, and environmental catalyst demand.

The working principle of so-called promoters in a catalytic process has been effectively seen in real-time for the first time by researchers at TU Wien. Although their significance in technology is ...