The original story “ New platinum-free photocatalyst turns sunlight and water into renewable energy ” is published in The ...

Photocatalysis promises an efficient conversion of abundant solar energy into usable chemical energy. Polyheptazine imides ...

A team led by Abigail Doyle at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that phosphines can show transition- metal-like reactivity in a light-driven reaction between amine-containing rings and ...

A blue-light-powered iron catalyst just replaced rare metals — and unlocked a milestone in precision drug synthesis.

Researchers at Nagoya University have created a more efficient iron-based photocatalyst that could reduce the need for rare and expensive metals in advanced chemistry. Unlike earlier designs, the new ...

Clean energy plans, including the U.S. Infrastructure Investment Act’s “Clean Hydrogen Road Map,” are counting on hydrogen as a fuel of the future. But current hydrogen separation technology is still ...

"Our smart photocatalyst functions as a traffic guide who opens one specific pathway in response to light of specific color," says Yevheniia Markushyna, researcher at the Max Planck Institut for ...

Artificial photosynthesis offers a way to store the energy of sunlight within chemical bonds and could be used to produce renewable solar fuels like hydrogen. Researchers hoping to harness the Sun’s ...

Photocatalysts facilitate chemical reactions by absorbing light. Metal-based photocatalysts are widely used in organic synthesis due to their durability and the ability to tune their function by ...

Hydrogen is emerging as a valuable contributor to renewable energy supplies and is typically produced by the use of platinum ...

Published in the journal RSC Advances, the authors report a prototype, easy-to-make carbon-based catalyst which could be used to break down polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of ...

In the future, hydrogen produced from sunlight and water using photocatalysts could provide a source of clean energy. Researchers have developed a method to detect the oxygen produced from this ...