The rapid growth of plastic waste is an ever-growing environmental and energy challenge. Selectively converting waste plastics to naphtha, a main feedstock for ethylene and the plastic industry, shows high potential to partially ...
Polymers
Jan 19, 2023
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(Phys.org)—Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames Laboratory are learning more about how nano-scale catalytic systems work, and their research could be the key to improved processes for refining biofuels ...
Materials Science
Oct 11, 2012
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High entropy alloys or HEAs consist of five or more different metallic elements and are an extremely interesting class of materials with a great diversity of potential applications. Since the macroscopic properties of HEAs ...
Nanophysics
Oct 20, 2022
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In the late 1700s, a Scottish chemist named Elizabeth Fulhame discovered that certain chemical reactions occurred only in the presence of water and that, at the end of those reactions, the amount of water was not depleted. ...
Materials Science
Mar 12, 2018
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Scientists from RUDN University in collaboration with Russian and foreign colleagues have studied reductive amination reactions. The new reactions and catalytic systems based on them have applications in organic synthesis, ...
Materials Science
Oct 2, 2017
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