Tuning the precursor ratio and annealing temperature in electrospun Fe-NC catalysts optimizes nitrogen species to outperform commercial platinum-carbon in oxygen reduction. Iron-nitrogen-carbon (Fe-NC) catalysts fabricated through electrospinning achieve enhanced oxygen reduction reaction activity and long-term durability compared to commercial platinum-carbon…
Tuning temperature, pressure and a small potassium dose allowed a cobalt-titania catalyst to convert 30.8 percent of CO2 with an estimated 9.2 percent C5+ selectivity, while hotter conditions pushed methane selectivity to about 90 percent.
Edith Zhao November 4, 20262026, Affiliate Research Tewodros Asefa, RCEI Affiliate, is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers. He is a co-author on the study. Zinc-air batteries could…
Electron spin is a quantum property that makes electrons behave like tiny magnets. It can influence how electrons interact with each other and how chemical reactions take place. This has led scientists to ask an intriguing question: What if better…
Electron spin is a quantum property that makes electrons behave like tiny magnets. It can influence how electrons interact with each other and how chemical reactions take place. This has led scientists to ask an intriguing question: What if better…
Using just a zeolite as a catalyst, in the presence of water, scientists produced two carboxylic acids through carbonylation—the introduction of carbon monoxide into a molecule. Industrially relevant products, propanoic acid is used for food preservation, and isobutyric acid…
A new chemical process funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation has produced methanol — a type of alcohol essential for manufacturing many common products and a potential fuel source — more efficiently than ever before. The method generates methanol from carbon dioxide…
edited by Swati Mestri, reviewed by Robert Egan Researchers have used artificial intelligence to identify promising catalysts using only the scientific knowledge that was available years before their actual discovery. Their findings could accelerate the search for more efficient hydrogen…
Ruthenium (Ru) is a valuable metal used in catalysts to speed up chemical reactions in many industrial processes. It can help improve efficiency and reduce the energy needed for chemical production. However, because it is rare and expensive, scientists are…
Newswise — The long-standing challenges to the practical implementation of rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are the electrochemical irreversibility of the Zn anode and degradation of the air cathodes in alkaline electrolyte, which eventually results in poor cycle life and low cell…
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