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Chemistry World October 30, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	A Better Catalyst for Fuel Cells? Alloy nanoparticles that efficiently catalyse oxygen's conversion into water - the energy-releasing reaction that occurs in fuel cells - have been discovered. The particles are up to six times more active than pure platinum, the material typically used in current fuel cells.
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 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 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 April 24, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Researchers 'See' Catalyst Molecules at Work Researchers have for the first time 'watched' in real time single molecules of catalyst participating in a reaction at a solid-liquid interface.
Chemistry World April 11, 2011 Mike Brown	One catalyst, two reactions Researchers in the US have designed a novel material that can catalyse two separate, sequential reactions to produce industrially relevant intermediates in one pot.
Chemistry World October 30, 2014 Simon Hadlington	A new way to convert light to electricity By shining light onto metallic nanoparticles, researchers in the US and the Netherlands have demonstrated an entirely new way to generate electrical energy
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 February 18, 2009 Nina Notman	Single Nanocatalyst Behaviour Revealed Before you can design the perfect nanoparticle catalyst, you first need to understand the fundamental science that governs their reactivity. U.S. Scientists have said they have done just that.
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.
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 October 6, 2009 Simon Hadlington	New catalyst for propene oxidation Chemists in Japan have demonstrated a new 'clean' catalytic system for converting propene to propene epoxide
Chemistry World May 1, 2012 David Bradley	A colorful way to size up nanoparticles Researchers in China have now developed a straightforward light-scattering technique to estimate the size of gold nanoparticles in the 35 to 110nm range.
Chemistry World June 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Rethinking redox chemistry Metal oxide redox chemistry may be due a big re-think following new research by US scientists. It seems that it is not solely electrons that are being shunted about. In many, possibly most, cases a proton also comes along for the ride.
Chemistry World April 10, 2014 Tim Wogan	Nanocrystalline copper turns CO into fuel A new type of nanocrystalline copper electrode that catalyses the electrochemical conversion of carbon monoxide to alcohols has been demonstrated by researchers in the US.
Reactive Reports November 2007 David Bradley	Cats Don't Work Like That Scientists have discovered that the three-way catalytic converter in your car converts carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide in two reaction steps, instead of a single step as previously thought.
Reactive Reports Issue 52 David Bradley	Corrosion Isn't All Bad The chemical corrosion of metal surfaces is not all bad and might be exploited to produce useful nanoscale surface features with potential technological applications in catalysis, sensors, and other areas.
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 October 10, 2007 Ned Stafford	Catalytic Converters go Nano Mazda Motor Corporation has unveiled a new generation of catalytic converters that use 70 to 90 per cent less of the precious metals which help to purify exhaust emissions.
Chemistry World June 5, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	Nanoparticles scrub up a treat in hot water bath Upping the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles can be as simple as a good wash in hot water, UK chemists have shown.
Chemistry World April 2007 Philip Ball	Opinion: The Crucible Copper doorknobs could be the latest - and oldest - way to beat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The microbe dies within an hour of so on copper surfaces, whereas the bacteria survive for days on stainless steel.
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 May 8, 2015 Michaela Muehlberg	Polymers curl up and take control Scientists in Germany have successfully collapsed single polymer chains into dense nanoparticles, to make single-chain nanoparticles, by adding palladium.
Chemistry World November 18, 2014 Matthew Gunther	Hollow oxide can take the heat Researchers have developed a twin-layer insulating coating made up of hollow aluminum oxide spheres which could protect industrial parts, such as steam turbine components, from both heat and oxidation damage.
Chemistry World September 1, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Copper Mines and Coordination Chemistry Extracting pure copper metal from low-grade metal ores will benefit from the latest coordination chemistry research, thanks to a molecule that can hold negative and positive ions in place, UK chemists claim.
Chemistry World December 8, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Molecular Suitcases Created by Corrosion Hollow spheres, cubes and cylinders could be useful as inorganic 'molecular suitcases' to carry drugs or catalysts.
Chemistry World November 12, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Microscope Reveals Catalyst Secrets A promising technique for watching catalysts in action could provide new insights into how they work, report scientists in the Netherlands.
Chemistry World September 27, 2012 Charlie Quigg	Cheaper component for greenhouse gas reduction catalyst Scientists from China have replaced the tungsten oxide in a widely used greenhouse gas reduction catalyst with iron oxide, which improves the selectivity and reduces the cost of the catalyst.
Chemistry World March 13, 2006 Simon Hadlington	New Way to Produce Heavy Rare Earth Metals Chemists have for the first time demonstrated the electrochemical reduction of a solid oxide of a heavy rare earth metal into its metallic state.
Chemistry World February 5, 2014 Andy Extance	Plants bear palladium catalyst fruit UK researchers have redefined the term 'chemical plant' by showing thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) seedlings can reduce palladium salts and help produce catalytic nanoparticles.
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 September 24, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Copper Future for Solar Cells Rare ruthenium complexes that are a key component of dye-sensitized solar cells could be replaced by molecules based on copper.
Chemistry World April 21, 2011 Mary Badcock	CO2 aids oxidation reactions Carbon dioxide enhances the catalytic oxidation of cyclic alkenes, leading to higher conversions at low pressures, say researchers from South Korea.
Chemistry World January 7, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Upgrading biomass to gasoline Making cheap gasoline from biomass is a step closer, thanks to a new catalyst developed in the US.
Chemistry World September 4, 2014 Simon Hadlington	'Unifying theory' proposed for carbon monoxide oxidation on supported gold nanoparticles US researchers believe they have uncovered the means by which gold nanoparticles sitting on a support of titanium dioxide can oxidise carbon monoxide at low temperatures.
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 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 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.
Chemistry World September 2, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Nanoparticles Paint a Finer Picture Swiss scientists have developed a process that can print detailed images using nanoparticles as 'ink', while maintaining their catalytic and optical properties.
Technology Research News April 7, 2004	Simulation maps nano patterns Researchers from the University of Michigan have used a computer simulation to develop a method of chemically building nanoscale patterns on a surface.
Chemistry World March 19, 2009 Manisha Lalloo	Copper catalysts give meta aromatics UK Researchers have discovered that, simply by using a copper catalyst, they are able to perform tricky substitution reactions at a difficult position on benzene rings
Chemistry World July 3, 2015 Andy Extance	Copper catalysis overcomes double bond trouble Some carbon-carbon double bonds seem too unreactive for synthetic use -- but that's just how chemists in the US are now exploiting them.
Chemistry World August 2, 2013 Hayley Birch	Sound solution to nanoparticle handling problems Researchers are using ultrasound to bond nanoparticles -- essentially sticking together particles too small to be seen with sounds too high-pitched to be heard.
Chemistry World June 1, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Structural order gained over conducting polymer Scientists in Canada and the US have shown how it is possible to assemble ordered arrays of short chains of a commercially important conducting polymer on a metal surface.
Chemistry World August 6, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Buckyballs prove to be a magnetic proposition for copper Scientists from the UK, US and Switzerland has now discovered copper and manganese do show magnetism at room temperature if they are layered with buckminsterfullerene.
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Jessica Cocker	Biological fate of nanoparticles in the body Nanoparticles are extremely difficult to detect and measure once they are distributed in a biological system. Now, Spanish scientists have developed a novel way for measuring their biodistribution.
Chemistry World June 12, 2015 David Bradley	Copper click chemistry mechanism unravelled Both the mono- and bis-copper pathways are active in the CuAAC reaction, but the latter is kinetically favored.
Chemistry World May 30, 2006 Michael Gross	A Physiological Role for Healthy Prions Researchers have shown that the healthy version of the scrapie pathogen helps maintain the optimum concentration of copper ions in the cell.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2007 David Lee Smith	This Beats Stealing Air Conditioners With copper prices strong, some thieves are making off with air conditioning units. A far more sensible and long-term way to benefit from copper's strength is to keep your eyes on Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold.
Chemistry World November 15, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Creating a toolbox for nanoparticle synthesis Hybrid nanoparticles made from several different materials that can be built up in a controlled and directed manner have been created by chemists in the US.