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Sparking sustainable new chemical catalysts
Chemical engineers show how tungsten oxide can be used as a catalyst in sustainable chemical conversions
20-May-2022
Engineers rely on catalysts for a vast array of applications from food manufacturing to chemical production, so finding efficient, environmentally friendly catalysts is an important avenue of research. New research led by the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering could lead to ...
Newly discovered enzyme breaks down PET plastic in record time
Research finding could help make biological recycling more commercially viable
18-May-2022
Plastic bottles, punnets, wrap – such lightweight packaging made of PET plastic becomes a problem if it is not recycled. Scientists at Leipzig University have now discovered a highly efficient enzyme that degrades PET in record time. The enzyme PHL7, which the researchers found in a compost heap ...
Converting excess atmospheric CO₂ into energy-rich chemicals
Lights, catalyst, reaction! Converting CO₂ to formic acid using an alumina-supported, iron-based compound
17-May-2022
Photoreduction of CO2 into transportable fuel like formic acid (HCOOH) is a great way of dealing with CO2’s rising levels in the atmosphere. To aid in this mission, a research team from Tokyo Tech chose an easily available iron-based mineral and loaded it onto an alumina support to develop a ...
Energy researchers invent chameleon metal that acts like many others
Research could improve efficiency for storing renewable energy, making carbon-free fuels, and manufacturing sustainable materials
12-May-2022
A team of energy researchers led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have invented a groundbreaking device that electronically converts one metal into behaving like another to use as a catalyst for speeding chemical reactions. The fabricated device, called a “catalytic condenser,” is the ...
Step toward a Circular Economy?
Catalytic deconstruction of PET with zirconium metal–organic framework
11-May-2022
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most common plastics. Discarded PET most often ends up in landfills or in the environment because the rate of recycling remains low. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team has now reported a zirconium-based metal–organic framework material ...
Nitrous oxide - anything but inert
Synthesis of phenols with nitrous oxide
10-May-2022
The emission of various greenhouse gases threatens the global environment, and scientists around the world are increasingly involved and committed to address this issue. While many research groups focus on carbon dioxide (C02) or methane (CH4) revalorization strategies, a team led by Dr. Josep ...
Scientists solve mystery about catalysis for green production of methanol from carbon dioxide
Live view into methanol synthesis
10-May-2022
An international research team led by researchers of Stockholm University has for the first time been able to study the surface of a copper-zinc catalyst when carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol. The results – obtained at DESY´s brilliant light source PETRAIII – are published in the scientific ...
A better way to create compounds for pharmaceuticals, other chemicals
Study uses new process to make complex molecules
09-May-2022
What do gunpowder, penicillin and Teflon all have in common? They were inventions that took the world by storm, but they were all created by complete accident. In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers used electricity to develop a tool that may make it easier and cheaper to ...
New organocatalysts can compete with enzymes
Particular interest to the chemical and pharmaceutical industries
09-May-2022
Organocatalysis not only provides an imaginable alternative to classical catalytic processes, but is even more efficient in many cases - and thus of particular interest to the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. More than 20 years ago, Ben List and his Scottish colleague David MacMillan found ...
Rice process aims to strip ammonia from wastewater
Ruthenium and copper catalyze a more environmentally friendly way to produce essential chemical
04-May-2022
A dash ofrutheniumatoms on a mesh of copper nanowires could be one step toward a revolution in the global ammonia industry that also helps the environment. Collaborators at Rice University’sGeorge R. Brown School of Engineering,Arizona State Universityand Pacific Northwest National ...
