The high school chemistry description of a catalyst is pretty simple: it’s a substance that helps a reaction to proceed without being consumed in the process. Take the case of the jet pack ...

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.

A newly developed catalyst built by precisely replacing cerium atoms at specific locations on a cerium oxide surface is nine ...

More information: Fatima-Zahra Azar et al, Selective biomass conversion over novel designed tandem catalyst, Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jobab.2024.09.001 ...

Using a light-activated catalyst, researchers have unlocked a new pathway in nickel chemistry to construct ... 2015, Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature14875 ...

The researchers also analysed the environmental benefits of using the novel catalyst in chemical reactions and found that it achieves a carbon footprint that is 10 times lower than using ...