Catalysis—the reduction of activation energy in a chemical reaction by a catalyst—plays a key role in the chemical industry, ...

WESTBROOK, Maine, Jan. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. announces a significant new addition to its leading line of point-of-care instruments, the Catalyst One(TM) Chemistry Analyzer.

Researchers from National Taiwan University and Chulalongkorn University developed a copper-based catalyst system that ...

Urea is an extremely important chemical, especially for fertilizers. But, making urea is energy intensive and relies heavily ...

Solid catalysts underpin many of the large-scale chemical transformations used to manufacture modern materials, converting hydrocarbons — including renewable or recycled forms of carbon — into the ...

A catalyst is a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction. The catalyst is not used up or chemically changed during the reaction. Enzymes are catalysts that work inside the cells of living ...

Researchers have invented a groundbreaking new catalyst technology that converts renewable materials like trees and corn to the key chemicals, acrylic acid, and acrylates used in paints, coatings, and ...

A new catalyst for breaking the tough molecular bond between carbon and hydrogen holds the promise of a cleaner, easier, cheaper way to derive products from petroleum, say researchers. Simple, ...

Scientists have figured out a new way to strong-arm some catalysts, tying the chemical compounds down and then, as needed, unleashing them with brute force. The research, published online April 6 in ...

A carefully engineered gold catalyst has just pushed green chemistry into new territory, setting a performance benchmark that had resisted improvement for a decade. By pairing tiny deposits of gold ...