Hydrogen peroxide decomposes on its own into water and oxygen gas. This process is sped up by a catalyst. In this reaction, the catalyst is potassium permanganate, and the bubbles are full of oxygen ...

Many modern industrial processes depend on complex chemistry. Take fertilizer production, for example: to make it, companies ...

Scientists have developed a new material that could help make clean hydrogen production more efficient and affordable. The ...

Hydrogen-based technologies are becoming more of a topic as renewable and clean energy sources are desired. A controversial ...

A catalyst increases the rate of a reaction but it is not used up in the reaction. If a catalyst is present, the reacting particles can collide more successfully with less energy and so the ...

"This makes it extremely challenging to directly observe sensitive catalysts or organic matter during a reaction using traditional TEM methods." To overcome this challenge, the team turned to SMART-EM ...

Combining the plastics in a high-pressure reactor with ethylene gas and the catalyst materials breaks the polymer chains up into component molecules that can be used to make new plastics.

A team of scientists has directly observed catalysis in-action at the atomic level. In mesmerizing new videos, single atoms move and shake during a chemical reaction that removes hydrogen atoms from ...

In a significant advancement for renewable energy technologies, a new catalyst has been developed that dramatically improves the efficiency and stability of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER ...