Tag: Catalysis and Reactions
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A new rulebook for designing stable dilute alloy catalysts
Selecting strongly binding adsorbates or alloying metals that do not mix keeps the emerging material class stable under high temperatures.
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A self-cleaning device for oceanic carbon capture
Cyclic pH swings wash away electrode fouling, and a ridged flow channel swirls water to reach an industrial-scale current density.
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Speeding up light-driven chemical reactions with nanocrystals
Syncing molecular vibrations with plasmons, quantum packets of electron motion, helped researchers create an accessible, scalable photocatalyst platform.
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Interpretable machine learning to accelerate nanocatalyst discovery
A fast and accurate surrogate model screens over 10,000 possible metal-oxide supports for a platinum nanocatalyst to prevent sintering under high temperatures.
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$1.3M to improve urea fertilizer production and reduce CO2 emissions
Rather than contributing to emissions, the production of an essential fertilizer could consume carbon dioxide, and a U-M team will explore such a method.
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$2M to replace fossil fuels with solar power in fertilizer production
The new approach could enable farmers to produce ammonia on-site, and also reduce CO2 emissions from fertilizer production.
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Machine learning links material composition and performance in catalysts
Understanding how to design better catalysts could enable sustainable energy tech and make everyday chemicals more environmentally friendly.
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Solving the plastic shortage
New catalyst could stabilize supplies of one of the world’s most important plastics.
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World’s most complex synthetic microparticle outdoes nature’s intricacy
Creating and measuring intricacy in particles that could improve electronics and chemical reactions.