Multi-million investment to drive the de-fossilization of the chemical industry

Verbio flagship project in bio-based chemicals: groundbreaking for catalyst production in Hungary

01-Jul-2025 - XiMo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Verbio SE, held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of the new production facility for the large-scale industrial production of metathesis catalysts in Gödöllő, Hungary. Starting in summer 2026, innovative metathesis catalysts will be ...

Nanoburgers with promising flaws

DESY team finds surprising defects in tiny metal particles, which could stimulate the development of more efficient catalysts

27-Jun-2025 - Catalysts are indispensable in many industries: they speed up chemical reactions, making them economically viable. They often consist of tiny particles, just a few nanometres across, to which molecules attach themselves, making it easier for them to form a bond with another reagent. The catalysts ...

Small but Mighty: Miniaturized Hydrogen Production

“We asked the biologically somewhat crazy question of whether we can’t just find a shortcut and let ferredoxin produce hydrogen”

19-Jun-2025 - Researchers have created a miniature biocatalyst for hydrogen production. It works efficiently with electrons from photosynthesis. Natural hydrogen-producing enzymes are large and extremely sensitive to oxygen. This makes it difficult to use them for the applied production of green hydrogen. ...

Solving two battery challenges with one atom-scale catalyst

“This work is significant because it solves two long-standing problems in lithium–oxygen batteries using a single material”

17-Jun-2025 - Lithium–oxygen (Li–O₂) batteries are poised to revolutionize energy storage with their ultrahigh theoretical energy density. However, performance barriers at both the cathode and anode have prevented their practical deployment. A new study proposes an elegant solution: atomic-scale nickel (Ni) ...

PFAS: A novel path to breaking down “forever chemicals”

A new catalyst capable of cleaving strong carbon-fluorine bonds has been developed – potential use in pharmaceutical production

16-Jun-2025 - Chemists at Goethe University Frankfurt have developed a catalyst capable of breaking down per- and polyfluorinated organic substances (PFAS) – also known as “forever chemicals” – in a targeted manner. PFAS are widely used to make surfaces resistant to dirt and water, but their extreme ...

Green hydrogen: MXene boosts the effectiveness of catalysts

Promising path to a new class of catalysts

02-Jun-2025 - MXenes are adept at hosting catalytically active particles. This property can be exploited to create more potent catalyst materials that significantly accelerate and enhance the oxygen evolution reaction, which is one of the bottlenecks in the production of green hydrogen via electrolysis using ...

hte and Heraeus Precious Metals collaborate on catalytic ammonia cracking

22-May-2025 - hte and precious metals specialist Heraeus Precious Metals signed a R&D service agreement. The main focus of this collaboration is the screening of different materials for catalytic ammonia cracking in order to obtain hydrogen. As part of this screening project, a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art ...

Heat- and Oxygen-Stable Biocatalyst for Hydrogen Production

Newly detected [FeFe]-hydrogenase from a thermophilic bacterium is not degraded by oxygen

15-May-2025 - In the absence of air, microorganisms produce hydrogen using an enzyme called [FeFe]-hydrogenase, one of the most efficient hydrogen-producing biocatalysts known and a promising tool for green hydrogen energy. However, these enzymes are rapidly destroyed when exposed to air, which has so far ...

Highly Reactive Catalyst Enables Labeling of Biologically Active Compounds

New reactivity enables conversion of seemingly “unreactive” molecule parts

13-May-2025 - In a recent issue of the “Journal of the American Chemical Society”, the research group of Prof. Dr. Johannes Teichert (Chemnitz University of Technology, Organic Chemistry) discloses the results of a joint research effort together with research partners from the working group of Prof. Dr. Fabian ...

Witchcraft with small data: AI Revolutionizes CO2 Recycling with "Small Data" Models

Doctoral student conjures precise AI models for environmentally friendly Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using minimal data

06-May-2025 - At the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock, LIKAT, a doctoral student working with Dr David Linke developed AI models for the Fischer-Tropsch process based on CO2. The process was originally developed in the 1920s to produce liquid hydrocarbons from carbon monoxide and hydrogen obtained ...