Methanol is a high-demand industrial chemical used to make many products people use every day as fuel for ships and ...

With the aim to precisely understand its function, researchers from the Inorganic Chemistry Department and Interface Science ...

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 ...

Researchers have used a novel catalyst process to recycle a type of plastic found in everything from grocery bags and food packaging to toys and electronics into liquid fuels and wax. For the first ...

Plastic waste is one of the most serious pollution problems on the planet. Plastics are hard to break down and can last for decades in nature, even under the harshest conditions. A new catalyst ...

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 ...

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 ...