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Chemistry textbooks describe catalysts as follows."A catalyst is a substance that changes the rate of a chemical reaction but ...

Catalysts spur chemical reactions used across industries, from producing fuels and medicines to manufacturing chemicals and ...

CatDRX is a generative AI framework developed at Institute of Science Tokyo, which enables the design of new chemical catalysts based on the specific chemical reactions in which they are used. The ...

Solid acid catalysts promise cleaner, solvent-free routes to industrial chemistry, but they share a stubborn weakness: the acid sites that drive reactions tend to disappear during operation. A team at ...

Chemists at King's College London have made a breakthrough in the way they develop artificial helix shapes for the amino acids that constitute proteins. These new synthetic shapes have the potential ...

Advances in computational methods have enabled the trends in reactivity for transition metal and alloy catalysts to be ...

A new catalyst design could transform how acetaldehyde is made from renewable bioethanol. Researchers found that a carefully balanced mix of gold, manganese, and copper creates a powerful synergy that ...

A chemical reaction can convert two polluting greenhouse gases into valuable building blocks for cleaner fuels and feedstocks, but the high temperature required for the reaction also deactivates the ...

Zinc-air batteries can store significantly more energy than lithium-ion batteries, but until now have been virtually ...