Transformation of biomass to chemicals and fuels is a long-term goal in both science and
industry. However, high cost is one of the major obstacles to the industrialization of this …

Cobalt and cobalt oxide NPs are gaining diverse catalytic and biomedical applications,
because of their unique antimicrobial, anticancer, catalytic, antioxidant, antifungal, and …

Aerobic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) as
a bioplastics monomer is efficiently promoted by a simple system based on a nonprecious …

In the past years there has been a growing demand for solid catalysts efficient in the partial
oxidation of alcohols for the production of fine and specialty chemicals. The use of …

This work demonstrates the molecular engineering of active sites on a graphene scaffold. It
was found that the N-doped graphene nanosheets prepared by a high-temperature …

The selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a versatile bio-based platform
molecule, leads to the formation of several intriguing and useful downstream chemicals …

Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is one of the versatile platform molecules that can be derived
from biomass, and a promising starting substrate for producing 2, 5‐diformylfuran (DFF) and …

This review is focused on the use of solid Lewis acids to promote catalytic oxidations. While
the concept of using Lewis acids to promote the reaction of organic substrates with oxidizing …

Cryptomelane-type manganese dioxide (K-MnO2) nanofibers with typical diameters of 20−
60 nm and lengths of 1− 6 μm were prepared by reacting KMnO4 with MnSO4 under …

We have developed a novel and facile approach of hydrothermal redox reaction to prepare
cryptomelane-type octahedral molecular sieve (OMS-2) nanorods with tunable …