Production of light olefins from CO2, the primary greenhouse gases, is great importance to mitigate adverse effects CO2 emission on environment and supply value-added products non-petroleum resource. However, development robust catalyst with controllable selectivity stability remains a challenge. Herein, we report that Zn-promoted Fe can boost stable selective production CO2. Specifically, exhi...

Copper (Cu) is the most potent catalyst for dioxin formation, but Iron (Fe), Zinc (Zn), Potassium (K) and Sodium (Na) have also been found in multiple studies to be correlated with increased dioxin/furan formation. Some studies have also indicated that Manganese (Mn), Magnesium (Mg) and Nickel (Ni) may also serve as catalysts for dioxin formation. Studies have conflicted on whether Aluminum (Al...

A structural model for the active site of phosphoesterases, enzymes that degrade organophosphate neurotoxins, has been synthesised. The ligand [2-((2-hydroxy-3-(((2-hydroxyethyl)(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)amino)methyl)-5-methylbenzyl)(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)amino)acetic acid] (H(3)L1) and two Zn(ii) complexes have been prepared and characterised as [Zn(2)(HL1)(CH(3)COO)](PF(6)).H(2)O and Li[Zn(2)(HL1)](4)...

A convenient and highly efficient procedure for the synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2-(1H)-one/thione derivatives via one-pot three-component Biginelli condensation of arylaldehydes,urea/thiourea and ethyl/methyl acetoacetate in the presence of Zn(SO4)2.7H2Oas anefficient, readily and inexpensive catalyst under solvent-free conditions have been studied. Thisprotocol ha...

α-MnO2 nanotubes-supported Co3O4 (Co3O4/MnO2) and its carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-hybrids (Co3O4/MnO2-CNTs) have been successfully developed through a facile two-pot precipitation reaction and hydrothermal process, which exhibit the superior bi-functional catalytic activity for both ORR and OER. The high performance is believed to be induced by the hybrid effect among MnO2 nanotubes, hollow Co3O4 a...

Metal catalysts are widely used for nanowire (NW) growth and are one of the essential parameters that dictate the crystal growth phenomena, thus controlling the NW's morphology. Although extensive research has been conducted on catalyst effects, the catalyst drifting effect is generally underestimated for controlling the morphology of nanostructures grown at a relatively high temperature. In th...

The prepared SA-Fe-3DOMC catalyst with rich pore structure and densely accessible Fe–N 4 active was demonstrated to boost ORR catalytic performance peak power density for Zn–air batteries.

In this study, several ZnO catalysts were prepared using different zinc sources as precursors. The different catalyst morphologies obtained were used to degrade photocatalytically a methyl orange (MO) dye solution, which was used to model wastewater pollution. The precursors, Zn(CH3COO)2, ZnCl2 and Zn(NO3)2, were individually added to a solution containing cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) ...

The high cost and scarcity of noble metal catalysts, such as Pt, have hindered the hydrogen production from electrochemical water splitting, the oxygen reduction in fuel cells and batteries. Herein, we developed a simple template-free approach to three-dimensional porous carbon networks codoped with nitrogen and phosphorus by pyrolysis of a supermolecular aggregate of self-assembled melamine, p...