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Chemistry World
December 21, 2010
James Urquhart
Cellulose catalyst rewrites rules of attraction Chinese researchers have developed a magnetic solid acid catalyst that raises the prospect of efficiently converting biomass cellulose into useful chemicals, such as sugars for biofuel production. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 24, 2014
Dannielle Whittaker
Carving out a future for biomass conversion to jet fuel Lignocellulose, a raw material in biomass, can be converted to biofuels and is often considered a long-term alternative to the diminishing supply of fossil fuels. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 13, 2006
Michael Gross
Catalyst Cracks Tough Cellulose Metal catalysts can break down cellulose into simple sugar alcohols, chemists have found, marking an important step in the quest to produce green fuels from renewable resources. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 7, 2010
Lewis Brindley
Upgrading biomass to gasoline Making cheap gasoline from biomass is a step closer, thanks to a new catalyst developed in the US. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 18, 2008
Simon Hadlington
Bio-petroleum made from sugars James Dumesic's team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to convert simple sugars into hydrocarbons that could be blended to make vehicle fuels that are identical to the ones we use today. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 28, 2007
Richard Van Noorden
To Chew or to Burn? A positive buzz of research and bold investment is surrounding second generation biofuels. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 23, 2012
Amy Middleton-Gear
Plant power! To combat our reliance on fossil fuels, US scientists have discovered a new route for turning the carbohydrate cellulose -- the most abundant organic molecule on Earth -- into 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural, a promising precursor molecule to alternative fuels. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 2, 2006
Richard Van Noorden
How Best to Use Biomass? Researchers have developed an efficient way of turning renewable resources like vegetable oils -- and potentially biomass - into hydrogen-rich gas. The gas could be converted to synthetic fuels and industrial chemicals, or used in fuel cells. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 13, 2013
Jeanne Therese Andres
Bacterium breaks down grass for biofuel US scientists have discovered the first microorganism that anaerobically degrades plant biomass to release sugars for biofuel feedstocks. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 21, 2013
A biomass bonanza Companies have put biofuels on the back burner to aim for higher margin chemicals mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 8, 2013
Colin King
Figuring lignin out Lignin gives plants the strength to grow tall but this strength is a barrier to turning plants into biofuels. So researchers in the UK have devised an efficient way to make complex model compounds of lignin to help them figure out the best way to break lignin down. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 27, 2014
James Urquhart
First ionic liquid made from plant waste Ionic liquids -- salts that are liquid at room temperature -- could potentially be made more cheaply and greenly by recycling by-products from biofuel production processes, according to US researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 26, 2008
Hayley Birch
Cheap catalyst turns cellulose to antifreeze A new catalyst that converts cellulose into high yields of ethylene glycol could help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels in making plastics, say US-based scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Fast Company
November 19, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt
Department of Energy's Blake Simmons Makes Fuel Out Of Plants Investors, researchers, and executives are discovering new ways to make and use biofuels. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 19, 2014
Polly Wilson
Photooxidation system that's membrane-bound for success For the first time, a water oxidation catalyst and photosensitiser have been co-embedded into a membrane to make an artificial water photooxidation system. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 16, 2013
Amy Middleton-Gear
Sieving silica sieves from biomass ash A team, led by Duncan Maquarrie at the University of York, developed an efficient route for extracting the silicates by forming alkali silicate solutions. 'We have to become more sustainable and re-evaluate what we currently call waste,' says Maquarrie. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 3, 2009
Hayley Birch
Bio-Inspired Catalyst Design Could Rival Platinum French scientists have demonstrated the potential of a new fuel cell catalyst inspired by hydrogenase enzymes. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
June 15, 2005
Kimberly Patch
Process Ups Biodiesel Efficiency Researchers have shown that it is possible to convert biomass materials like corn into fuel that could be used in diesel engines in a way that automatically separates the fuel from water. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
February 25, 2004
Kimberly Patch
Ethanol yields hydrogen Researchers have devised a way to extract hydrogen directly from ethanol, which would make for a renewable energy cycle. Ethanol is produced by converting biomass like cornstarch to sugar, then fermenting it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 19, 2010
Simon Hadlington
Novel route to key aromatics US chemists have found a new way to create aromatic compounds from straight chains of hydrocarbons by using an iridium-based catalyst. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 10, 2015
Jennifer Newton
Waste not, want not? Karen Wilson is striving to promote biofuels and get the message across that there's a lot of waste streams from agriculture and food processing that could be a viable feedstock for fuels and chemicals. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 8, 2014
Karl Collins
Oxidation station Small molecules are making significant inroads -- with reactivity and selectivity approaching levels previously thought unachievable. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 22, 2008
Chris Ladd
Trees in Your Tank? The Future of Green Gasoline: Earth Day Extra Researchers recently published a new method of refining hydrocarbons from cellulose, paving the way to turn wood scraps into gasoline mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
September 24, 2007
Evan Ratliff
The Formula: From Grass to Gas The process behind converting raw plants to ethanol. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 29, 2008
Fred Campbell
Breaking the bonds of global warming US scientists have managed to prise apart the highly unreactive carbon-fluorine bond at room temperature, potentially paving the way to the efficient disposal of hydrofluorocarbons -- highly stable and long-lived greenhouse gases. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 13, 2011
Mike Brown
Palladium helps gold catalyst go green Researchers have developed a catalyst that efficiently converts toluene into a useful industrial intermediate in a much greener process than traditional methods. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 25, 2010
Laura Howes
Making plastics from plants Cheap bio-oil could soon compete with crude oil in plastic manufacture, thanks to work by US scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 27, 2012
Charlie Quigg
Cheaper component for greenhouse gas reduction catalyst Scientists from China have replaced the tungsten oxide in a widely used greenhouse gas reduction catalyst with iron oxide, which improves the selectivity and reduces the cost of the catalyst. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 10, 2014
Anisha Ratan
Driving towards success with biomass-derived petrol Chinese scientists have overcome previous limitations to generate high octane number petrol from biomass-derived I -valerolactone, an organic compound that is already often blended in small amounts with petrol or diesel. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 28, 2012
Andrew Turley
Lignin to lead bio-based chemicals? Lignin could come become the primary source of bio-based aromatic compounds for the chemical industry, according to a new report. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 11, 2008
Lewis Brindley
Oxidation Goes Green A new 'green' strategy for making useful nitrogen-based chemicals has been announced by chemists in the UK. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 20, 2006
Jessica Ebert
Golden Touch for Amines Aminobenzene chemicals are used to make anything from dyes to pharmaceuticals, and now scientists have found a way to produce them in a more efficient way using a gold catalyst. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 3, 2014
Cally Haynes
One rotaxane, two catalytic stories A two-site supramolecular catalyst that can be programmed to mediate different reactions depending on its conformation has been designed by researchers in the UK. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 10, 2011
David Bradley
A soluble solution to the Haber process? A clearer understanding of the activity of the key component of the Haber-Bosch process - the catalyst - could help to optimize industrial nitrogen fixation still further and remove the need for high temperatures and pressures. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 17, 2009
Simon Hadlington
Single catalyst gives two products from racemic mixture Chemists in the US have demonstrated a remarkable reaction in which a single catalyst can transform a racemic mixture - molecules identical in every way except for their chirality - into two distinct enantiomerically pure products. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 23, 2011
Simon Hadlington
Breaking open boranes to power fuel cells Hydrogen-rich ammonia borane could be a step closer to becoming a practical source of hydrogen for fuel cells following the development of a new ruthenium-based catalyst by chemists in the US. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 21, 2008
Lewis Brindley
Esters Made Easy with Indium Indium is the basis of a novel catalyst designed to make useful cyclic esters. This catalyst could greatly simplify the production of chiral dihydropyranones, important structural elements in many natural products and pharmaceuticals. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 26, 2013
Holly Sheahan
Capturing the potential of carbon dioxide A team of researchers from the University of Bath have opened up the idea of using carbon dioxide as a useful potential feedstock; a useful chemical resource rather than a troublesome waste product. mark for My Articles similar articles