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Chemistry World January 30, 2009 Hayley Birch	Nanocrystals Get in Shape for Catalysis New research in fine tuning the shape and size of nanoparticles could lead to important advances in catalysis.
Chemistry World March 24, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Producing powerful palladium particles US scientists have found a way to clean up the production of palladium nanoparticles - doubling their performance as catalysts for fuel cells.
Chemistry World January 13, 2011 Mike Brown	Palladium helps gold catalyst go green Researchers have developed a catalyst that efficiently converts toluene into a useful industrial intermediate in a much greener process than traditional methods.
Chemistry World May 21, 2009 James Urquhart	Catalyst kinetics revealed French and UK scientists have developed a spectroscopy technique that has elucidated the reaction mechanism of a silver-alumina catalyst.
Chemistry World December 3, 2014 Cally Haynes	One rotaxane, two catalytic stories A two-site supramolecular catalyst that can be programmed to mediate different reactions depending on its conformation has been designed by researchers in the UK.
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Chemistry World August 20, 2008	Gold's Magic Number A new gold catalyst developed by UK chemists can catalyse hydrocarbon oxidation, using O 2 as the only oxidant. But catalyst particle size is critical - above 2nm diameter, the catalyst loses all activity.
Chemistry World January 21, 2011 Manisha Lalloo	Black TiO2 absorbs light across the spectrum Researchers in the US have used hydrogenation to introduce disorder into titanium dioxide nanocrystals, increasing the amount of solar light they absorb.
Chemistry World October 1, 2010 Hayley Birch	On-off catalyst mimics enzyme function US and Japanese researchers have created an enzyme-like catalyst whose activity can be switched on or off using small molecules.
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Chemistry World February 2, 2011 Elinor Richards	Gold going it alone Spanish scientists have proved that gold alone can catalyse cross-coupling reactions following a claim made last year that palladium impurities in the gold are essential for the catalysis.
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Chemistry World September 4, 2008 Fred Campbell	Two catalysts better than one US researchers have cracked a long standing problem in chemical synthesis - the catalytic alpha-alkylation of aldehydes - by combining two catalysts in one pot.
Chemistry World May 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington	A novel designer surface catalyst for oxidations Scientists in China have developed a new surface-based catalyst that can selectively oxidise carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide in the presence of hydrogen.
Chemistry World April 18, 2012 Elinor Richards	Homogeneous Catalyst Recovery Made Easier Scientists have now found a way to recover homogeneous catalysts at the end of a chemical reaction that doesn't suffer from the slow reaction rates that affect current catalyst recovery systems.
Chemistry World December 23, 2015 Karl Collins	Scratching chiral surfaces There are numerous challenges to developing reactions that exploit chiral surfaces, or employ molecular modifiers (ligands) to create a chiral surface environment and control the stereoselectivity of a transformation.
Chemistry World December 4, 2009 James Urquhart	Easier ester synthesis Researchers in the US have shown how oxygen-coated gold nanoparticles can selectively oxidise a variety of alcohols and aldehydes.
Chemistry World June 5, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Cheaper Catalysts Designed by Computer Researchers have used computer calculations to discover cheap alloys that selectively catalyse an industrial reaction better than the current expensive systems.
Chemistry World May 9, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Iron catalyst breaks the mold An iron catalyst that is not only greener than many of its precious metal competitors, but also catalyses reactions that they can't, could open new avenues in transition metal catalysis, say Chinese researchers.
Chemistry World February 21, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Esters Made Easy with Indium Indium is the basis of a novel catalyst designed to make useful cyclic esters. This catalyst could greatly simplify the production of chiral dihydropyranones, important structural elements in many natural products and pharmaceuticals.
Chemistry World November 5, 2008 James Urquhart	A cleaner route to methanol UK scientists say they have developed a way to efficiently produce methanol, the fuel and feedstock chemical, directly from glycerol, the waste by-product of industrial biodiesel production.
Chemistry World April 19, 2012 Amy Middleton-Gear	Catalyst delivery and recovery using MOFs Although heteropolyacids are excellent homogeneous polyoxometalate catalysts, recovering these molecules at the end of a reaction is often tricky and can have an impact on their application.
Chemistry World September 9, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	High-throughput catalyst screening for the masses Using nothing more than the standard chemistry lab equipment, researchers in the US have successfully turned the discovery of new catalytic reactions into a high-throughput process.
Chemistry World June 18, 2013 Rowan Frame	Hydrogen generation using sunlight Scientists from Spain have found a catalyst that can use sunlight to power an important industrial reaction for the production of hydrogen at ambient temperatures.
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Tim Wogan	Greener route to esters dodges toxic reactant The industrially important synthesis of esters could be set to become greener and safer as German chemists have found a way to use carbon dioxide in place of carbon monoxide for alkoxycarbonylation.
Chemistry World September 23, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Catalyst improves prospects for fuel cells Chemists in the US have developed a new catalyst that could help in a key reaction used to generate hydrogen for fuel cells.
Chemistry World April 6, 2009 Nina Notman	Torn catalysts help polymers heal themselves Catalysts that are activated by a mechanical force tearing them in two have been designed by Dutch scientists.
Chemistry World March 8, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Carbon nanotubes - a boon for chiral catalysts Researchers in China have created a new catalyst that could help in the production of chiral molecules for medical drugs. The catalyst, which consists of platinum nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon nanotubes, is the most active of its type ever reported.
Chemistry World February 20, 2012 James Urquhart	Unusual kinetics of catalyst revealed US researchers have elucidated the unusual reaction kinetics of C-H activation by the palladium(II) catalyst (Pd(OAc) 2).
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Chemistry World October 15, 2015 Aurora Walshe	Carbon dioxide sees the light Collaborators in Spain and Germany have built a microreactor that uses visible light to drive a reaction that turns carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide -- an important chemical building block.
Chemistry World December 12, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	Aqueous Fischer-Tropsch is Clean and Green Chinese chemists have carried out the Fischer-Tropsch reaction in water for the first time, bringing a greener route to hydrocarbon fuels a step closer.
Chemistry World December 3, 2010 Elinor Richards	Graphene catalyst comes out on top Sulfonated graphene solid acid catalysts could be cheap, environmentally friendly alternatives to concentrated sulfuric acid for use in industry because they can be recycled, say scientists from China.
Chemistry World November 17, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Catalyst flexes for extra control US chemists have developed a new type of catalyst capable of exerting high stereochemical control over olefin metathesis reactions
Chemistry World May 3, 2007 Simon Hadlington	The Many Faces of Platinum Researchers in the U.S. and China have discovered a way to grow multi-faceted nanocrystals of platinum that have much higher catalytic activity than the conventional crystalline forms of the metal.
Chemistry World February 11, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Oxidation Goes Green A new 'green' strategy for making useful nitrogen-based chemicals has been announced by chemists in the UK.
Chemistry World December 14, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Pico-gold clusters break catalysis record Chemists in Spain have shown that small clusters of gold atoms are excellent inorganic catalysts with record-breaking efficiency.
Chemistry World February 1, 2012 Jon Evans	Two become one for bio-oil upgrade The development of a couple of new and improved catalysts for upgrading bio-oil is bringing this novel approach to producing biofuels a step closer to the big time.
Chemistry World April 9, 2010 Mike Brown	Going for silver: green plastic production Scientists in the US have identified a new class of catalyst based on subnanometer clusters of three silver atoms that could provide a greener route to propylene oxide - a key intermediate used to make thousands of everyday products
Chemistry World February 6, 2011 Laura Howes	Cells as test tubes Chemists have used living cells as test tubes to carry out chemical reactions never before seen within living cells.
Chemistry World September 30, 2009 Simon Haddlington	Porous networks trap reactive intermediates Chemists in Japan have shown how it is possible to take sequential x-ray snapshots of chemical reactions taking place within molecular-sized 'reaction chambers', capturing the crystal structures of short-lived reactive intermediates.
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Chemistry World April 7, 2015 Hugh Cowley	The Goldilocks of heterogeneous catalysis An international team of scientists has tethered palladium to a metal -- organic framework support using thiol groups normally associated with catalyst poisoning
Chemistry World February 28, 2014 Tim Wogan	Fuel cells put in the frame with catalysts that need far less platinum US scientists have created an exceptional fuel cell catalyst that contains far less platinum -- conventional catalysts need 36 times more platinum to hit the same levels of activity.