The ever increasing industrial production of commodity and specialty chemicals inexorably
depletes the finite primary fossil resources available on Earth. The forecast of population …

Bioethanol is one of the most important bio-resources produced from biomass fermentation
and is an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil-based fuels as it is regarded as …

The present study describes a new feature in the self-assembly of cagelike
copperphenylsilsesquioxanes: the strong influence of acetone solvates on cage structure …

Ethanol dehydration is effectively catalyzed by strongly acidic zeolites which, however,
exhibit poor time-on-stream stability. For example, HZSM-5 features strong acid sites …

A novel Cr-substituted hydroxyapatite (Cr-HA) nanoparticles were synthesized via
continuous hydrothermal technique. Moreover, the synthesized material was embedded into …

Carbon dioxide utilization presents an important and topical research topic. However, the
performance of catalysts needed for CO 2 transformations does not achieve the necessary …

This study reports intriguing features in the self-assembly of cage copper (II) silsesquioxanes
in the presence of air. Despite the wide variation of solvates used, a series of prismatic …

In this study, preparation, characterization and catalytic application of a novel core-shell
structured magnetic Ti-loaded phenylene-based nanoporous organosilica (Mag@ Ti-NOS) …

The tools of sol–gel chemistry allow synthesizing a plethora of functional materials in a
controlled bottom-up fashion. In the field of heterogeneous catalysis, scientists utilize sol–gel …

Porous materials have attracted great attention in recent years, and a variety of surface
modification techniques have been developed. Herein, a layer of non-noble metal nickel …