Tiny flow chips, faster clean catalysis

02-Apr-2026 - Designing better catalysts often means controlling where reactions happen and how fast molecules can move. In this study, researchers developed a microfluidic route to synthesis polymer microspheres whose shape could be precisely tuned from solid to hollow and open-hole forms, then decorated them ...

Lead-acid battery inspired catalyst design

Pb doped RuIrOx for efficient and durable acidic oxygen evolution in proton exchange membrane electrolyzers at 3 A/cm2

27-Nov-2025 - A n international research team from the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (SLAB), the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory have developed a novel lead-doped ruthenium-iridium oxide (RuIrPbOₓ) catalyst that exhibits ...

Atomically dispersed bimetallic iron–cobalt electrocatalysts developed for green production of ammonia

Researchers suggest that these new findings will be of great interest to the broad catalysis community

17-Nov-2022 - Scientists from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the use of controllably synthesized single-atom catalysts (SACs) to depict the relationship between electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) performance and single-atom (SA) ...

Novel synergistic single-atom catalyst approach breaks activity limitation of predecessors

While the developed synergistic catalyst does not erase the need for noble metals, it does reduce the amount needed for a better reaction

28-Mar-2022 - The key to chemical reactions is in the name — there needs to be something that causes the chemicals to react to one another. Called a catalyst, this component induces or speeds up reactions in a controlled manner to produce a desired outcome. The catalysts used in several industries are often ...

Novel electrocatalyst boosts synthesis of urea from CO2 and N2

20-Dec-2021 - A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Guangjin from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has fabricated a novel InOOH electrocatalyst with unique frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) for efficient urea synthesis at ambient conditions. The industrial process of ...

Scientists create ultra-highly stable Cu-based catalysts

16-Dec-2021 - The development of Cu-based catalysts is limiteddue totheir poor thermal stabilitycaused bythe low Tammann temperature of Cu. Recently, a research group led by Prof. YU Jiafeng and Prof. SUN Jian from theDalian Institute of Chemical Physics(DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ...

High-performance electrocatalysts to propel development of direct ethanol fuel cells

09-Mar-2021 - Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing Normal University recently reported a strategy for boosting the electrocatalytic performance of palladium (Pd) in ethanol oxidation reaction, the key anodic reaction of direct ethanol fuel ...

Novel catalysts improve efficiency of urea synthesis at ambient conditions

02-Mar-2021 - Converting both nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added urea molecules via C-N coupling reaction is a promising method to solve the problem of excessive CO2 emissions. Compared with huge energy consumption industrial processes, the electrochemical urea synthesis provides an ...

Efficient indium oxide catalysts designed for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol

Promising way to directly convert CO2 into methanol for industrial applications

23-Jun-2020 - Catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a green and sustainable means of synthesizing commodity chemicals such as methanol. This conversion process is key to realizing the "methanol economy" or creating "liquid sunshine", both aspects of the circular economy. Recent studies revealed ...

Scientists use light to convert fatty acids into alkanes

Green and environmentally friendly process

24-Feb-2020 - Researchers led by Prof. WANG Feng at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported that photocatalytic decarboxylation is an efficient alternate pathway for converting biomass-derived fatty acids into alkanes under mild conditions of ambient ...