Science news articles about 'catalysis'

  • Chemical Engineer Honored for Exexcellence in Catalysis

    ... Chen, the Claire D. LeClaire Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the 2008 Award for Excellence in Catalysis from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York.
  • Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors

    ... that this form of carbon nanotubes appeared to be particularly useful in the area of catalysis but there was uncertainty as to whether it was the properties of the carbon nanotubes per se that provide ...
  • Power from formic acid

    ... Björn Loges, Albert Boddien, Henrik Junge, and Matthias Beller at the Leibniz Institute of Catalysis in Rostock have now succeeded in the controlled extraction of hydrogen from formic acid—without the ...
  • Warming up for magnetic resonance imaging

    ... better way to study chemical exchange in nanostructures like zeolites, which are important in catalysis, or in versatile carbon nanotubes. Temperature-controlled depolarization is a breakthrough for ...
  • Prof to Participate in G8 Summit in Japan

    ... at the University of Delaware, will represent the United States on a scientific panel focusing on the impact of catalysis on energy and the environment at the G8 Summit, July 7-9, in Toyako, Japan.
  • Metals shape up with a little help from friends

    ... with others or even mixtures of metals." In addition to making porous materials for catalysis, the researchers said, the technique could be used to create finely structured metals on surfaces, a key ...
  • Study reveals principles behind stability and electronic properties of gold nanoclusters

    ... model that provides a solid background for nanoengineering ligand-protected gold clusters for applications in catalysis, sensing, photonics, bio-labeling and molecular electronics," said Häkkinen.
  • Turning waste material into ethanol

    ... Lab chemist and Chemical and Biological Science Program Director Victor Lin. "The problem was that catalysis technology at that time didn't allow selectivity in the byproducts. They could produce ...
  • Catalyst mystery unlocked

    ... human body, enzymes catalyze almost every reaction. "The Holy Grail of enzyme catalysis and the ultimate manifestation of understanding of this process is the ability to design enzymes," said senior ...
  • Big step in tiny technology

    (PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial step in developing minuscule structures with application potential in sophisticated sensors, catalysis, and nanoelectronics has been developed by Scottish researchers.
  • A light bulb and a few chemicals

    ... . Moreover, this light bulb strategy, invented in the University's Merck Center for Catalysis, opens the door to many other chemical reactions that have previously been impossible yet now should be ...
  • From sugar to gasoline

    ... new paradigm of next generation hydrocarbon biofuels," said John Regalbuto, director of the Catalysis and Biocatalysis Program at NSF and chair of an interagency working group on biomass conversion. ...
  • Teaching Nano to Swim

    ... objects do something extraordinary -- he makes them swim. Sen's work is driven by catalysis, the chemical phenomenon whereby a substance accelerates a chemical reaction but emerges unchanged at the ...
  • Secret lives of catalysts revealed

    ... are minimized. "Now we can dream," says Gabor Somorjai, a renowned surface science and catalysis expert who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley' ...
  • Scripps research scientists develop a new strategy to fight obesity

    ... of catalytic efficiency, our study clearly demonstrates that even a basal level of catalysis can effectively modulate feeding behavior. These findings not only validate antibody-based therapeutics, ...

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