Scientists have long known that impurities and flaws in a metal’s crystal structure can lower the material’s melting point. In an unexpected twist, an international research team has dramatically ...

How well a catalyst works often depends on the surface it is placed on. For years, it has been known that carbon substrates work well with precious metal catalysts, but it could never be properly ...

Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have successfully measured and described the interaction between metal nanoparticles and a carbon substrate, according to a study published in ACS ...

Three seemingly simple reactions, the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), are critical for clean and renewable energy technologies, ...

Transition metal carbyne complexes hold an important place in chemistry, and a wide variety of metal carbyne complexes have been prepared and exploited in organic and organometallic synthesis. However ...

Carbon steel, also called plain carbon steel, is a malleable, iron-based metal containing carbon, small amounts of manganese, and other elements that are inherently present. Steels can either be cast ...

Katie Lamb receives funding from a Royal Society funded Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project. Last year, humans emitted approximately 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere ...

(Nanowerk News) Precious metals play an important role in the chemical industry as catalysts: With the help of silver, platinum, palladium or other elements, chemical reactions can take place that ...