Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

Chemistry World May 2009	The artificial leaf Using sunlight to split water molecules and form hydrogen fuel is one of the most promising tactics for kicking our carbon habit.
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 July 31, 2008	Breakthrough Catalyst for Splitting Water Scientists say they have solved a fundamental problem hampering renewable energy generation - how to split water cheaply into oxygen and hydrogen, under benign conditions, so that the gases can be stored as fuels.
Chemistry World November 28, 2010 Mike Brown	Water and sunlight: a winning catalytic combination Researchers have incorporated a sunlight-activated trigger into an oxygenation process that uses water as the oxygen source.
Chemistry World October 1, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Semiconductor Splits Water with Sunlight Scientists in Germany have developed a promising new catalyst that splits water using sunlight -- and stores the hydrogen and oxygen produced.
Chemistry World November 6, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Double reactor makes hydrogen and syngas Two chemical reactions key to producing future fuels can be linked together in a single membrane-based reactor to increase their efficiency, say Chinese chemists.
Chemistry World January 6, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Greener route to carboxylic acids Chemists in Israel have developed a new way to oxidize primary alcohols to carboxylic acids, using water as both the reaction solvent and the source of oxygen.
Reactive Reports Issue 37 David Bradley	X-rays Reveal PSII Secret The possibility of using solar energy and water as a cheap source of hydrogen and oxygen is a step closer thanks to British researchers who discovered how the photosynthetic centre in a cyanobacterium works.
Chemistry World June 26, 2015 Osman Mohamed	Single catalyst simplifies water splitting Scientists in Switzerland have shown that a nickel catalyst, capable of hydrogen evolution, can also stably generate oxygen at low overpotentials in alkaline solution.
Chemistry World April 11, 2011 Laura Howes	Pocket sized fuel cell, a step closer A new catalyst for hydrogen evolution could see you carry around a fuel cell in your pocket to power electronic devices.
Chemistry World November 10, 2015 Elisabeth Ratcliffe	Eucalyptus bears both catalyst and biofuel Japanese researchers who have devised a method using eucalyptus trees that regenerates residue from the process into fresh catalyst.
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 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 April 28, 2010 Mike Brown	Producing hydrogen from sea water A new catalyst that generates hydrogen from sea water has been developed by scientists in the US.
Chemistry World July 25, 2013 Laura Howes	Artificial leaf in the shade but still growing Can chemists create a cheap artificial leaf that is more efficient than its natural counterpart?
Chemistry World June 1, 2006 Michael Gross	New Twists on Catalysis Chemists around the world have discovered several new twists to improve the performance of asymmetric catalysts in hydrogenation reactions.
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 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 10, 2010 Carl Saxton	Breaking news for the CO bond UK scientists have pinpointed the moment that the CO bond, the strongest bond of any diatomic molecule, breaks when oxidised by a gold catalyst.
Reactive Reports October 2007 David Bradley	An Economical Hydrogen Economy Researchers have now developed a catalyst that may be able to convert sunlight and water directly into hydrogen, in a process analogous to the photosynthesis of carbohydrates by plants using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water as the raw materials.
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 November 26, 2012 Laura Howes	Protein coat prepares catalyst for cascades By protecting a transition metal catalyst with a protein coat, scientists have managed to couple up biocatalysts and chemical catalysts to perform a cascade reaction.
Chemistry World May 31, 2013 Charlie Quigg	Splitting the sea Scientists in Australia are closer to harvesting hydrogen from two of the most abundant and naturally occurring resources in our environment -- seawater and sunlight.
Chemistry World July 16, 2012 Manisha Lalloo	'Artificial Leaf' Under the Microscope Defects at the edge of the cobalt clusters give the Nocera catalyst its water splitting properties.
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 September 21, 2009 Hayley Birch	Enzymes inspire new catalyst design for hydrogen production A novel enzyme-based catalyst developed by UK and US researchers hints at new ways of designing catalysts for the water-gas shift reaction, an important industrial reaction in the production of high grade hydrogen.
Chemistry World April 4, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	More to Catalysis Than Meets the Eye Catalysts are more than just a reactive surface. Changes beneath a metal's skin can completely change the course of a reaction.
Chemistry World April 25, 2010 Hayley Birch	New strategy yields best ever catalyst for ammonia decomposition US researchers have developed a new strategy for predicting bimetallic catalysts.
Chemistry World September 9, 2013 Emma Stoye	Water-splitting catalyst based on Prussian blue Prussian blue has been used for over 300 years as a pigment in dyes and an antidote to heavy metal poisoning. Researchers say it could help improve water splitting 'artificial leaf' technology, thanks to the catalytic activity of a cobalt-containing derivative.
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 February 20, 2013 Graham Hutchings	Design and applications of single-site heterogeneous catalysts This monograph by John Meurig Thomas shows how heterogeneous catalysis lies at the heart of achieving the goal of making chemical processes greener and cleaner, and using sustainable routes.
Chemistry World August 10, 2009 Simon Hadlington	New catalyst for methane to methanol Chemists in Germany have invented a new solid catalyst for converting methane to methanol.
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley	Natural Copy Cat While plants convert carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen, chemists are having a more difficult time finding an efficient method for converting carbon dioxide into useful fuels.
Chemistry World September 25, 2012 Najafpour et al.	Running on Sun We imagine a future where a substantial portion of our energy is met by solar fuels, leaving the task of food production to natural photosynthesis. This comes with the caveat that plants, algae and cyanobacteria be used to produce high value carbon compounds as well as biofuels
Chemistry World April 20, 2015 Isobel Marr	Membrane-less electrolyser set to disrupt water splitting Researchers in Switzerland have side-stepped membrane-cost issues getting in the way of sustainable water-splitting by designing a device that does without a membrane.
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 27, 2015 Tim Wogan	Sun rises on new solar route to hydrogen A new, more efficient way of using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has been developed by researchers in China and Israel.
Chemistry World December 18, 2008 Alex Hellemans	Fuel cells without platinum Looking for ways to avoid using costly and scarce platinum in fuel cells, Chinese researchers have reported details of a fuel cell that uses cheap nickel as a catalyst.
Chemistry World March 4, 2011 Carl Saxton	Real-world treatment for dye-contaminated effluents US scientists have found that a dye oxidation process using low levels of an iron catalyst could be used to degrade highly contaminated wastewater under ambient conditions.
Chemistry World September 20, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Catalytic Polyoxometalate Plays Hide and Seek in MOF Chemists in the US have managed to enhance a catalyst that can be used to destroy toxic or smelly chemicals in the air.
Chemistry World January 21, 2011 Russell Johnson	Jump starting prebiotic photochemistry Light activated reactions of organic molecules in fatty acid membranes offers a plausible method for energy transfer and storage in prebiotic systems, claim US scientists.
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 March 28, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Copper catalysis sees the light Researchers in the US have shown that the oxide coating on copper nanoparticles can be stripped away by light, exposing the metallic, catalytic copper core.
Chemistry World July 27, 2010 Mike Brown	Bright ideas to develop solar fuels The US Department of Energy is financing the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, with $22 million going towards the project this year and the remainder handed out at a rate of approximately $25 million annually over the following four years.
Chemistry World May 14, 2009 Hayley Birch	Two metals better than one for fuel cell catalysts US scientists have reported a dramatic improvement in the activity of catalytic nanoparticles destined to replace platinum in fuel cells.
Chemistry World April 21, 2011 James Urquhart	Lignin cut down to size by nickel catalyst A nickel-based homogeneous catalyst that breaks down lignin - the tough polymer that forms plant cell walls - into useful building blocks suitable for chemicals, including green fuels, has been developed by US scientists.
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 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 January 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Catalysis Probed with MRI Scientists have developed a way of peering into a microreactor to watch gases react on a solid catalyst.
Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Emma Eley	Sustainable iron catalyst for clean hydrogenation An international team of chemists has reported a clean and green way to perform one of the most important industrial reactions for pharmaceutical and petrochemical synthesis.