Scientists have demonstrated a promising new approach for converting methane -- the primary component of natural gas -- into ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Imagine that a new lifesaving medication is invented, but its unusual structure makes it difficult to manufacture. The drug might turn out to be prohibitively expensive or ...

Researchers have outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heterogeneous catalysis to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the so-called 'forever chemicals' that have contaminated ...

An illustration of a person in a lab coat looking at a picket fence. The field is various elements, metals specifically. Credit: Chris Gash On a summer day about 20 years ago, Paul Chirik returned to ...

Bert M. Weckhuysen has a dream. Someday he’d like to produce a movie showing what happens on a catalytic solid at a submolecular level. That dream remains out of reach, he admits. But after more than ...

Infertility affects 10 to 15% of persons in the United States. In approximately 30%, the cause is unexplained. Infertility has been suspected to be a harbinger of poor health outcomes, because both ...

Researchers have used gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines. Re-using gold from electronic waste prevents it from being lost to ...

The first magnesium-based electride has been synthesised by researchers in Norway, Poland and Spain. Electrides are of interest to materials scientists as they hold free-floating electrons in internal ...

Colloidal nanoparticle catalysts are considered to be semi-heterogeneous (or quasi-homogeneous) due to their homogeneous characteristics (kinetic efficiency) accompanied by their heterogeneous surface ...

When a catalyst and its substrate get in contact, they become involved in a series of weak attractive interactions that are preparatory to the real catalytic event that is the stabilization of an ...

We describe a novel method to prepare a liquid–solid hybrid catalyst via interfacial growth of a porous silica crust around Pickering emulsion droplets, which allowed us to overcome the current ...