The chemical industry consumes millions of tons of packing materials as catalytic support media or adsorbents in fixed-bed reactors and heat storage systems. Researchers have developed a means of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The huge economic impact of the corrosion of metallic structures is a very important issue for all modern societies. Estimates for the cost of corrosion degradation run to about ...

Figure 1: Material and electronic configuration of the perovskite-based solar cells and photocathodes. We therefore focused our attention on a novel protection methodology and designed a metal-based ...

Water-assembled capsules act as sophisticated nanotools, inducing and tuning chirality in metal dyes without chemical changes, with precise thermal control and adaptability. (Nanowerk News) In nature, ...

Metal-based catalysts have shown considerable performances in heterogeneous catalysis for the production of various valuable products. With the development of modern chemical industry, enormous ...

A soft protective shell could help nature’s catalysts find use in the chemical industry, new research suggests. Enzymes are exceptionally good catalysts in a bio-friendly environment, but can rapidly ...

New molecular capsules capable of imparting chiral activity to non-chiral metal-containing dyes were successfully created by self-assembly in water, as reported by researchers from Japan. These ...