The quest for the ideal catalyst

Dec 28, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Inexpensive and Earth-abundant alternatives to expensive noble metal catalysts remain a grand challenge at the forefront of the chemical industry. Catalysts play an indispensable role in the vast majority of industrial chemical processes by accelerating reaction rates and enabling important transformations under feasible conditions. However, the gold-standard catalysts – platinum and other rare platinum group metals – continue to constrain widespread adoption and scale-up in key sectors like fuels, bulk chemicals and pharmaceuticals due to…