The large uptake of both CO2 and CH4 by BC2N betters the performance of graphenes and activated charcoal
Remarkable Carbon Capture by Borocarbonitrides
Why Help a Growing Scientific Giant?
Richard Zare discusses how helping China develop scientifically can benefit the West
Organic Solar Cells with Record Efficiency
Record power conversion efficiency for polymer-based solar cells achieved by the incorporation of vertically oriented nanorods
New Dual Catalyst Approach
A new dual catalyst approach to cycloaddition makes a formerly diastereoselective reaction scheme enantioselective
Aromatic Halogenation Under Mild Conditions
The selective halogenation of ligands of a trinuclear copper complex has been obtained under extremely mild conditions
New Catalyst for Hydrogenation
Catalyst with MgF2 support is four times more active than catalysts supported on commercial Al2O3
New Family of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes for Organocatalysis
New family of NHCs suitable for benzoin-type coupling reactions and might enable new or improved organocatalytic processes
New Type of Rechargeable Battery
Rechargeable batteries in cars could give way to microporous polymer that is an unusually powerful supercapacitor
Cheap and Simple Olefin Isomerization
Practical, cheap, and general protocol that uses iron for olefin isomerization could be used in fine chemical or pharmaceutical synthesis
Active Nanotube Adsorption Sites Uncovered
New understanding of carbon catalyst surface could aid development of commercial catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons