Producing clean hydrogen from water is often compared to storing renewable energy in chemical form, but improving the ...

Offers insights into the material degradation process of carbon-based catalysts The importance of advancing electrochemical energy technologies to meet the world's energy needs in the coming decades ...

Northwestern University chemists have developed a groundbreaking process that could simplify one of the world’s toughest environmental challenges: plastic recycling. Their new method skips the ...

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ends up buried or drifting into ecosystems because recycling it is slow, ...

Dramatic improvements have been made to the process of converting carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to methanol, a fuel and building block for a wide range of everyday materials, according to ...

Aluminum's journey has been remarkable, going from being more expensive than gold to one of the most widely used materials, from beverage cans to window frames and car parts. Scientists from the ...