Ni-doped carbon aerogel catalysts were prepared through sol-gel polycondensation of furfural with resorcinol in the presence of nickel nitrate salts, followed by drying at ambient pressure and then carbonization in N2. The catalysts were used for catalytic transfer hydrogenation of aromatic nitro compounds with propan-2-ol as hydrogen donor and KOH as promoter, and have been found to exhibit ex...

This study investigates the effect of surface acidity and basicity of aluminas on asphaltene adsorption followed by air oxidation. Equilibrium batch adsorption experiments were conducted at 25°C with solutions of asphaltenes in toluene at concentrations ranging from 100 to 3000 g/L using three conventional alumina adsorbents with different surface acidity. Data were found to better fit to the F...

The protein deacetylase SIRT1 is involved in the regulation of a large number of cellular processes that are thought to be required for cancer initiation and progression. Both SIRT1 activity and tumorigenesis can be influenced by dietary fat and polyphenolics. We set out to determine whether dietary modulations of tumorigenesis are mediated by SIRT1 catalytic functions. We introduced a mammary ...

Catalytic steam reforming of methane for hydrogen production proceeds even at 473 K over 1 wt% Pd/CeO2 catalyst in an electric field, thanks to the surface protonics. Kinetic analyses demonstrated the synergetic effect between catalytic reaction and electric field, revealing strengthened water pressure dependence of the reaction rate when applying an electric field, with one-third the apparent ...

Superparamagnetic Core/Catalytic Shell Heterostructures In article number 2205665, Cailei Yuan and co-workers design successfully prepare electrochemical-reconstructed NiFe/NiFeOOH core/shell nanoparticles confined in highly conductive amorphous carbon matrix. Benefiting from the unique superparamagnetic NiFe/catalytic NiFeOOH heterostructure, their oxygen evolution reaction performance is impr...

In the present work, the effect of several parameters involved in the preparation of PdCe-HMOR catalysts active for NOx selective catalytic reduction with methane (NOx CH4-SCR) was studied. Results show that the catalytic performance of Pd-HMOR is better when palladium is introduced by ion-exchange, namely at room temperature. It was also shown that Pd loading does not influence the formation o...

The catalytic cycle for the production of formic acid by CO2 hydrogenation and the reverse reaction have received renewed attention because they are viewed as offering a viable scheme for hydrogen storage and release. In this Forum Article, CO2 hydrogenation catalyzed by iridium complexes bearing sophisticated N^N-bidentate ligands is reported. We describe how a ligand containing hydroxy groups...