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• Biofuels and sophisticated materials cycles thanks to bio-templating
  

  Blue-green algae are among the oldest living creatures on Earth and have perfected the use of sunlight over billions of years. Empa scientists have now equipped these humble unicellular organisms with semiconductor coatings to create mini power plants, which supply biofuels and are photocatalyticall more

• Put into the right light - Reproducible and sustainable coupling reactions
  

  A team of researchers reports in the journal Nature Catalysis that sustainable carbon-nitrogen cross-couplings can be performed using simple nickel salts, carbon nitrides and light. The chemists study the use of cost-effective and reproducible semiconductors as photocatalysts in coupling reactions. more

• Molecular twist makes one catalyst useful for three hydrogen applications
  

  Scientists from Kyushu University and Kumamoto University in Japan have developed a new catalyst capable of assisting three key reactions for using hydrogen in energy and industry. Inspired by three types of enzymes in nature, this research can help elucidate unknown relationships among catalysts, p more

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Infographics Nickel

The Compositions of U.S. Coins

In this month’s Periodic Graphics in Chemical & Engineering News magazine, we’re looking at the compositions of U.S. coins, as well as some of their quirky history. more

The Metals in UK Coins

In the wake of the recent announcement of a new £1 coin to be introduced in 2017, today’s post looks at some of the metals present in the coins of the United Kingdom. All of these coins are produced using alloys, or mixtures of metals; the main metals used include copper, nickel, zinc and iron. The more

Colours of Transition Metal Ions in Aqueous Solution

This graphic looks at the colours of transition metal ions when they are in aqueous solution (in water), and also looks at the reason why we see coloured compounds and complexes for transition metals. This helps explain, for example, why rust (iron oxide) is an orange colour, and why the Statue of L more

Publications Nickel

• Geometric distortions in nickel (oxy)hydroxide electrocatalysts by redox inactive iron ions

  The dramatic change in electrochemical behavior of nickel (oxy)hydroxide films upon incorporation of Fe ions provides an opportunity to establish effective electrocatalyst design principles. We characterize a photochemically deposited series of Fe–Ni (oxy)hydroxides by X-ray absorption spectroscopy more

• Facile in situ fabrication of oriented titania submicrorods embedded into a superelastic nickel-titanium alloy fiber substrate and their application in solid-phase microextraction

  A nickel-titanium oxide (NiO/TiO2) coating was in situ grown on a nickel-titanium alloy (NiTi) fiber substrate by anodic oxidation. After annealing, a uniform and dense Ni-free coating of rutile phase TiO2 submicrorods (TiO2SRs) was formed. In particular, TiO2SRs were embedded into the NiTi fiber su more

• High selectivity of CO2 hydrogenation to CO by controlling the valence state of nickel using perovskite

  The selectivity of CO2 hydrogenation can be significantly tuned by controlling the valence state of nickel using lanthanum–iron–nickel perovskites. Nickel with higher valence states weakens the binding of CO and increases the activation barrier for further CO hydrogenation, leading to a higher CO se more