Sandwich is the food concocted by the 18th-ceuntry nobles to play card games uninterrupted. Meat or vegetables were layered then tucked between bread to be eaten quickly while engaged in the game.

Cu is believed to be an inactive metal with little or no catalytic activity for methane decomposition. 16,17 It is, however, wrong to think that copper has no hydrocarbon reforming capability and its ...

Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was ...

Clathrates are characterized by a complex cage structure that provides space for guest ions too. Now a team has investigated the suitability of clathrates as catalysts for electrolytic hydrogen ...

Solid materials used as heterogeneous catalysts are of crucial importance to pharmaceutical, (petro)chemical and environmental industries: the fabrication of more than 85% of all transportation fuels ...

A group of Japanese researchers has developed a technology to create a hybrid catalyst from simple-structured, commercially available rhodium and organic catalysts, which reduces chemical waste and ...

A new catalyst design could transform how acetaldehyde is made from renewable bioethanol. Researchers found that a carefully ...

A revolutionary shift from naphtha and petroleum feedstock to natural gas driven supply chain is occurring in the global chemicals market. Huge natural gas reserves have been unearthed, thanks to the ...