Mahdi Abu-Omar, Purdue's R.B. Wetherill Professor of Chemistry, holds a small vial containing results of a new catalytic process that can convert the lignin in wood into high-value chemical products ...

Aliphatic hydrocarbons such as fatty alcohols and petroleumderived alkanes have numerous applications in the chemical industry. In recent years, the renewable synthesis of aliphatic hydrocarbons has ...

Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Twente, led by Georgios Katsoukis, have discovered how the chemical environment around copper electrodes can dramatically ...

a–d, Surface structure and elemental mapping of Cu–Ag alloy before and after CO₂RR. e–h, Surface structure and mapping of Cu–Zn alloy before and after CO₂RR. i–j, Product selectivity as a function of ...

One of the biggest problems facing the Earth's environment right now is the abundance of plastic waste. An estimated 5 billion tons of plastic is collecting in landfills or filling the oceans, and if ...

Defects in the structure of metal−organic framework (MOF) materials can make ideal sites for the catalytic production of valuable industrial chemicals used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have demonstrated efficient solar energy storage in a chemical liquid. The stored energy can be transported and then released as heat ...

Chemical Engineers are primarily concerned with process engineering: the conversion of raw materials into valuable products with application across a wide swath of industries, from chemical process ...