Miriam M. Unterlass introduces a Journal of Materials Chemistry/Materials Advances Editor's choice web collection on recent advances in hydrothermal materials synthesis (https://rsc.li/hydrothermal).

The constant increase in greenhouse gases the environment is forcing people to look for different ways reduce such pollution. One of these use biodiesel road transport. Conventional production involves catalytic triglyceride transesterification process. When using homogeneous two-stage catalysis, it difficult purify resulting product from by-products formed, and catalysts cannot be reused. In c...

The preparation of copper(II) one-dimensional MOFs using an eco-efficient method is reported here. This method is based exclusively on using supercritical CO2 as a solvent, without the addition of any other additive or co-solvent. Neutral acetylacetonate copper complexes and two linear linkers, namely, the bidentate 4,4'-bipyridine and 4,4'-trimethylenedipyridine molecules, were reacted under c...

A novel synthetic route is designed, employing both high temperature and a nontoxic organic structure-directing agent (SDA), for the synthesis of high silica zeolite Y. The N-methylpyridinium used as an organic SDA is stable during the synthesis, and the high silica zeolite Y shows high hydrothermal stability and good catalytic performance, as well as excellent adsorptive properties.

Metal nanoparticle-decorated carbon spheres (mn-CSs) are prepared by combining one-pot hydrothermal synthesis and post-synthesis modification. The former sol-gel type process is employed to obtain heteroatom-containing polymer spheres (PSs), which easily attract metal species that, during thermal treatment, are initially converted to nanoparticle-decorated PSs and finally to mn-CSs.

Review of technical and economic problems enCOUntered in industry. Improvements that need to be brought, both at process and equipment levels with the help of scientific laboratories. Applications concerning piezoelectric materials. This paper is divided in four parts : 1 PROCESS' HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND PRESENT STATUS' OUTLINES 2 MAIN DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED IN HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS 3 PRE...

The site-selective H/D exchange reaction of phenol in sub-and supercritical water is studied without added catalysts. In subcritical water in equilibrium with steam at 210–240 °C, the H/D exchange proceeds both at the ortho and para sites in the phenyl ring, with no exchange observed at the meta site. The pseudo-first-order rate constants are of the order of 10 Ϫ4 s Ϫ1 ; 50% larger for the orth...

Framework Ti-substituted, 3-D hexagonal mesoporous, Ti-SBA-12, obtained for the first time by direct hydrothermal synthesis, oxidises bulky molecules such as cyclohexene and cyclooctene to the epoxides with >96% selectivity at high conversion levels (>60%).

The biorefinery concept integrates processes and technologies for an efficient biomass conversion using all components of a feedstock. Sargassum muticum is an invasive brown algae which could be regarded as a renewable resource susceptible of individual valorization of the constituent fractions into high added-value compounds. Microwave drying technology can be proposed before conventional etha...