This Perspective covers sustainable oxidation processes using doped cerias, ceria-supported catalysts and ceria-based mixed oxides. Firstly, we consider the general properties of ceria-based catalysts. We outline the advantages of the ceria redox cycle, and explain the dynamic behaviour of these catalysts in the presence of metal additives and dopants. We then review three types of catalytic ox...

Liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) are compounds that enable chemical energy storage through reversible hydrogenation. They are considered a promising technology to decouple energy production and consumption by combining high-energy densities with easy handling. A prominent LOHC is N-ethylcarbazole (NEC), which is reversibly hydrogenated to dodecahydro-N-ethylcarbazole (H12-NEC). We studie...

Propylene is an important raw material and extensively used in the petrochemical industry. There has been a continuously growing demand for propylene in recent years around the world1–3. The majority of propylene is produced as a byproduct from processes such as steam cracking of naphtha and fluid catalytic cracking (FCC)4,5. Additional sources of propylene included dehydrogenation of propane, ...

Highly crumpled graphene nanosheets (GNS) with a BET surface area as high as 1159 m(2) g(-1) was fabricated by a thermal exfoliation method. A systematic investigation was performed on the hydrogen sorption properties of MgH(2)-5 wt% GNS nanocomposites acquired by ball-milling. It was found that the as-synthesized GNS exhibited a superior catalytic effect on hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of MgH...

The reactivity of ruthenacyclic compounds towards ammonia-borane's dehydrogenation was investigated by considering both hydrolytic and anhydrous conditions. The study shows that the highly soluble μ-chlorido dicarbonylruthenium(II) dimeric complex derived from 4-tert-butyl,2-(p-tolyl)pyridine promotes, with an activation energy E(a) of 22.8 kcal mol(-1), the complete hydrolytic dehydrogenation ...

Calcium borohydride hydrazinates, Ca(BH4)2-nN2H4 (n 1⁄4 4/3, 1, 2, 3) have been synthesized successfully. In particular, Ca(BH4)2 2N2H4 crystallizes in a monoclinic space group of C2/m with the lattice parameters of a 1⁄4 10.1385 Å, b 1⁄4 8.6342 Å, c 1⁄4 4.6384 Å, b 1⁄4 106.467 . It can release 5.9 equiv. gas/Ca(BH4)2 (approximately 8.8 wt. % H2) at 240 C. Ca(BH4)2-N2H4 and Ca(BH4)2-4/3N2H4, on...

In this work, a polyimide (PI) containing triazole units was synthesized using 3,5-diamino-1,2,4-triazole and pyromellitic dianhydride in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone. This polymer was used as the support of manganese (III) tetrakis(4-methoxylphenyl)porphyrin acetate to attain a heterogeneous catalyst; namely Mn(T4-OMePP)OAc@PI. The synthesized PI and Mn(T4-OMePP)OAc@PI were characterized by di...