Platinum works beautifully. It speeds up chemical reactions, holds up under punishment, and sits reliably at the center of ...

Precious metals like palladium and platinum are often used as chemical catalysts, but true to their name, they’re expensive to source. Scientists may have just found a cheaper alternative.

A research team has developed a new cathode material that significantly improves the environmental stability and cycling performance of sodium-ion batteries. By designing a radial gradient ...

A team led by Abigail Doyle at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that phosphines can show transition- metal-like reactivity in a light-driven reaction between amine-containing rings and ...

Direct oxidation of methane to methanol is dominated by transition- or noble-metal-based catalysts, thus making the reaction quite expensive. To make the process efficient and cost-effective, ...

In the production of compounds, chemists have the fundamental goal of finding strategies that are most selective and avoid waste products. Breakthroughs in this area serve, among other things, to ...

Given the unexpected and unusual coupling of ketimines with vinyl bromides in the absence of added catalyst, a synergistic computational and experimental study was undertaken to gain insight into the ...

Researchers developed a catalyst support that lets cheap nickel and cobalt rival expensive ruthenium for producing hydrogen from ammonia at lower temperatures.