Through the Wire: A New Nanocatalyst Synthesis Technique
(PhysOrg.com) -- Materials containing bimetallic nanoparticles are attractive in vast technological fields because of their unique catalytic, electronic, and magnetic properties. One of the most...
View ArticleA molecular ripcord for chemical reactions
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) have developed an entirely new method for starting chemical reactions. For the first time they used mechanical forces to control...
View ArticleChemists uncover 'green' catalysts with promise for cheaper drug production
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Toronto research team from the Department of Chemistry has discovered useful "green" catalysts made from iron that might replace the much more expensive and toxic...
View ArticleDutch chemists make new chiral palladium metal
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have succeeded in making the first ever piece of chiral palladium metal. The findings, by a research team led by Gadi Rothenberg, professor of...
View ArticleDouble-action power stations: Energy and hydrogen
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gas power plants could be cheaply retrofitted to generate hydrogen as well as power, chemists say in Green Chemistry, a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.
View ArticleNew Sulfur- and Coking-Tolerant Material Could Expand Applications for Solid...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ceramic material described in this week's issue of the journal Science could help expand the applications for solid oxide fuel cells - devices that generate electricity directly...
View ArticleImaging a catalyst one atom at a time
(PhysOrg.com) -- The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from...
View ArticleScientists uncover alternative pathway of microRNA generation
MicroRNAs are small bits of RNA within cells that wield enormous power. They influence virtually every biological process by controlling the "expression" of genes. Helping them in exerting this control...
View ArticleCheap hydrogen fuel from seawater may be a step closer
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new catalyst has been developed to generate hydrogen from water cheaply, but the research was originally intended to make molecules that behaved like magnets. Hydrogen is a clean...
View ArticleA versatile, clean and efficient way to enhance widespread application of...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a versatile, practical and efficient method for activating sites on the surface of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and subsequently...
View ArticleA personality change for a catalyst
For more than 40 years, an ambition of catalysis science has been to persuade homogeneous catalysts to behave more like heterogeneous catalysts, while still maintaining their activity and exquisite...
View ArticlePositioning enzymes with ease
Virtually all processes in the human body rely on a unique class of proteins known as enzymes. To study them, scientists want to attach these molecules to surfaces and hold them fast, but this can...
View ArticleScientists uncover chemical transformations in cobalt nanoparticles
Understanding the intricacies of how nanoparticles undergo chemical transformations could lead to better ways to tailor their composition, which can lead to advanced material properties.
View ArticleMembrane pockets that gain catalytic activity upon self-assembly shed light...
Biological membranes play key roles in the body. They determine, for example, how molecules enter and exit cells, and the architecture of their lipid bilayer allows them to host enzymes and enhance...
View ArticleHydrogen from acidic water: Researchers develop potential low cost...
A technique for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the widely used industrial catalyst molybdenite has been developed by researchers with the...
View ArticleTo make better fuel cells, study the defects
Engineers trying to improve fuel-cell catalysts may be looking in the wrong place, according to new research at Cornell.
View ArticleHybrid 'Janus' nanoparticles made from gold and titania have high catalytic...
As recently as twenty-five years ago, chemists considered gold to be one of the most inert metallic elements, until the discovery that nanoscale-sized dispersions of gold had high catalytic activity...
View ArticleRare-earth half-sandwiches prove rewarding
The chemical frameworks of natural productsmolecules generated by biological organismshave inspired many of todays most potent pharmaceuticals. But the complexity of these compounds makes...
View ArticleScientists' gold discovery sheds light on catalysis
(Phys.org) -- A physicist at the University of York has played a key role in international research which has made an important advance in establishing the catalytic properties of gold at a nano level.
View ArticleThe latest advance in imaging technology helps optimize catalysts for use in...
The presence of carbon monoxide (CO) impurities in hydrogen gas (H2) can have a detrimental impact on the performance of fuel cells. Recent studies have shown that gold nanoparticles—particles less...
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