Combining the plastics in a high-pressure reactor with ethylene gas and the catalyst materials breaks the polymer chains up into component molecules that can be used to make new plastics.

Chemists and chemical engineers at California Institute of Technology, working with a pair of colleagues from the University ...

The process of catalysis—in which a material speeds up a chemical reaction—is crucial to the production of many of the ...

A new light-activated catalyst breaks and resets carbon–halogen bonds to convert racemic mixtures into enantiomerically ...

Indeed, chemistry ... as few as 7–10 atoms. At the time that Haruta made his discovery in Japan, I was working in industry in South Africa, trying to discover a catalyst for acetylene ...