Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Heterogeneous catalysis

R Schlögl - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A heterogeneous catalyst is a functional material that continually creates active sites with its
reactants under reaction conditions. These sites change the rates of chemical reactions of …

Graphene-based materials for catalysis

BF Machado, P Serp - Catalysis Science & Technology, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene is one of the most promising materials in nanotechnology. From a theoretical
point of view, it provides the ultimate two-dimensional model of a catalytic support. Its unique …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon nanotubes, science and technology part (I) structure, synthesis and characterisation

A Aqel, KMM Abou El-Nour, RAA Ammar… - Arabian Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Since their discovery in 1991 by the Japanese scientist “Sumio Iijima”, carbon nanotubes
have been of great interest, both from a fundamental point of view and for future …

Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers in catalysis

P Serp, M Corrias, P Kalck - Applied Catalysis A: General, 2003 - Elsevier
This review analyses the literature from the early 1990s until the beginning of 2003 and
covers the use of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and nanofibers as catalysts and catalysts …

Characterization methods of carbon nanotubes: a review

T Belin, F Epron - Materials Science and Engineering: B, 2005 - Elsevier
Carbon nanotubes due to their specific atomic structure have interesting chemical and
physical properties according to those of graphite and diamond. This review covers the …

Metal‐free heterogeneous catalysis for sustainable chemistry

DS Su, J Zhang, B Frank, A Thomas… - … Energy & Materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The current established catalytic processes used in chemical industries use metals, in many
cases precious metals, or metal oxides as catalysts. These are often energy‐consuming and …

Silver particles deposited onto magnetic carbon nanofibers as highly active catalysts for 4-nitrophenol reduction

CS Chen, TC Chen, KL Chiu, HC Wu, CW Pao… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
We used CO 2 as a carbon source for conversion to carbon nanofibers through the catalytic
hydrogenation reaction on a Ni-Na/Al 2 O 3 catalyst. The Ag+ adsorbed on carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Oxidative desulfurization using graphene and its composites for fuel containing thiophene and its derivatives: An update review

MA Betiha, AM Rabie, HS Ahmed… - Egyptian journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Oxidative desulfurization, in which the aromatic sulfur containing compounds are oxidized to
their analogical sulfones and subsequently extracted, has assured to be one of the …

Heteroatoms increase the selectivity in oxidative dehydrogenation reactions on nanocarbons

B Frank, J Zhang, R Blume, R Schlögl… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2009 - pure.mpg.de
Boron makes it selective: Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) modified by boron oxide catalyze the
oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propene with remarkable selectivity. Nanocarbon …