Frances Arnold and single-atom catalysis pioneer Tao Zhang recognized for transformative contributions to sustainable ...

Chemists have demonstrated that neutral chalcogen-bond donors can induce asymmetry in chemical reactions, addressing a challenge that has limited the development of chalcogen-bonding catalysis.

Catalysts do several surprising things to assist with daily life -- from bread making to turning raw materials into fuels more efficiently. Now, researchers have developed a way to speed up the ...

Catalysis—the reduction of activation energy in a chemical reaction by a catalyst—plays a key role in the chemical industry, as well as in the development of sustainable technologies essential for ...

Scientists have directly measured the minuscule electron sharing that makes precious-metal catalysts so effective. Their new technique, IET, reveals how molecules bind and react on metal surfaces with ...

A Northwestern University-led international team of scientists has, for the first time, directly observed catalysis in-action at the atomic level. In mesmerizing new videos, single atoms move and ...

Catalysis provides viable solutions for achieving sustainability in response to today's environmental demands. The development of newer, sophisticated homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis methods ...

Chemists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster have developed a new light-driven reaction sequence that enables the synthesis of complex three-dimensional molecular ...

Low-temperature plasma-assisted catalysis has emerged as a promising approach for activating chemically stable molecules under non-equilibrium conditions.