Catalyst 'Breathes' New Life into Chemical Production

To transform how a chemical called acrylonitrile (ACN) is made — not by building world-scale manufacturing sites, but by using smaller-scale, ...

Catalyst 'Breathes' New Life into Chemical Production - NewsBreak

A team of engineers is reimagining one of the essential processes in modern manufacturing. Their goal? To transform how a chemical called ...

Chemical Engineering | University of Virginia School of Engineering ...

Catalyst 'Breathes' New Life into Chemical Production. Professor William Epling's lab has discovered a way to make a common manufacturing chemical more ...

Catalyst Breakthroughs: Transforming Plastics and Photocatalysis

“We are producing samples for testing as surfactants to compare their properties with those of the surfactants generated from fossil feedstocks, ...

Enzyme-catalysis breathes new life into polyester condensation ...

Traditional chemical catalysts for polyester synthesis have enabled the generation of important commercial products. Undesirable characteristics of ...

Enzyme-inspired catalyst puts chemicals in right position to make ...

Taking inspiration from enzymes, chemists have developed a catalyst to simplify the synthesis of ethers, key functional components of many ...

“Unprecedented Discovery” – New Low-Cost Catalyst Converts ...

A low-cost, tin-based catalyst can selectively convert carbon dioxide to three widely produced chemicals — ethanol, acetic acid, and formic ...

Defying the impossible: How a Nobel Laurate chemist invented a ...

Catalysts are also integral to the production of many everyday items. Plastics, for instance, owe their existence to catalytic processes. The ...

New NSF center aims to transform catalyst synthesis

They're best known as the key component of catalytic converters—which convert pollutants in a vehicle's exhaust into non-toxic gases—but they ...

Applied Catalysis in Chemical Industry: Synthesis, Catalyst Design ...

Research is still needed to improve existing catalysts or to design new systems that can efficiently and selectively achieve a desired product ...

Catalyst Regeneration - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

The field of catalyst regeneration encompasses a diverse array of strategies aimed at breathing new life into deactivated catalysts, each method offering its ...

Enzymes: Moving at the Speed of Life - American Chemical Society

Enzymes let chemical reactions in the body happen millions of times faster than without the enzyme. Because enzymes are not part of the product, they can be ...

DOE Explains...Catalysts - Department of Energy

As a result, catalysts make it easier for atoms to break and form chemical bonds to produce new combinations and new substances. Using catalysts leads to faster ...

Catalysis - The Chemical Engineer

A NEW method to produce ammonia via electrolysis can improve the process while also lowering emis... 11th January 2021. IChemE awards engineers who 3D print ...

Catalysis and the Use of Energy by Cells - Molecular Biology ... - NCBI

Photosynthesis allows the electromagnetic energy in sunlight to be converted into chemical bond energy in the cell. Plants are able to obtain all the atoms they ...

Purdue study breathes new life into question of how life began

But Purdue University scientist Jean Chmielewski has developed a system made up of four peptides -- the building blocks for proteins -- that can ...

Catalysis - Stanford Chemistry

In addition to opening new energy sources, research into catalytic mechanisms and materials can improve industrial efficiency, produce greener materials, and ...

Industrial ammonia production emits more CO 2 than any other ...

For a new ammonia production system to be practical, such as in an electrochemical device like the one his group is working on, catalysts ...

Mobile Emissions Control Catalysts

BASF Catalysts offers exceptional expertise in the development of technologies that protect the air we breathe, produce the fuels that power our world and ...

Understanding the power of catalysis - CAS.org

In fact, almost everything in your daily life has been produced through the process of catalysis. ... in chemical production. Three crucial ...