Scientific discovery is often tedious, expensive, incremental trial and error, but the advent of artificial intelligence is ...

Finding high-performing catalysts, which are used to accelerate processes from chemical manufacturing to energy production, ...

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Acetals are important chemical compounds that are used, for example, in the production of certain medical agents. A new method now makes their synthesis easier and more environmentally friendly.

Software simulates 370,000 steps in under 100 hours, potentially cutting demand for time on supercomputers by orders of ...

Theory-guided development of an easier, more versatile process for synthesizing unsymmetric ligands provides new avenues of exploration in transitional metal catalysis. Theory-guided development of an ...

Biochar can help turn agricultural waste into clean hydrogen fuel while cutting carbon pollution, according to a new study in the journal Biochar. Researchers report that a simple two stage catalytic ...

Researchers have used a novel catalyst process to recycle a type of plastic found in everything from grocery bags and food packaging to toys and electronics into liquid fuels and wax. For the first ...

While plastics recycling is not new science, current processes don't make it economically worthwhile— waste plastics get "down-cycled" into lower grade, less useful material. It's a challenge that ...

For the first time, researchers have used a novel catalyst process to recycle a type of plastic found in everything from grocery bags and food packaging to toys and electronics into liquid fuels and ...

An illustration of a person in a lab coat looking at a picket fence. The field is various elements, metals specifically. Credit: Chris Gash On a summer day about 20 years ago, Paul Chirik returned to ...