"Hydrogenation is a critical and diverse reaction used to create food products, fuels, commodity chemicals and pharmaceuticals," said Zhenxing Feng, associate professor of chemical engineering.

Using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches, they analyzed how these size variations impact the hydrogenation of vanillin, a key reaction in fine chemical production.

"Hydrogenation is a critical and diverse reaction used to create food products, fuels, commodity chemicals and pharmaceuticals," said Zhenxing Feng, associate professor of chemical engineering.

Urea, with the formula CO(NH2)2, is a chemical compound that is widely used in a range of sectors, including manufacturing, ...

and then in the presence of hydrogen changes itself to catalyse the reverse reaction (the hydrogenation). It then changes back to perform dehydrogenation again, and the process is repeated.

Alkali and alkaline earth metal hydrides hold great promise for hydrogen storage and hydrogen-involved chemical transformations due to the unique properties of hydridic hydrogen (H-). However, bulk ...

First the data, then the experiment The number of publications on this reaction is increasing worldwide, and with it the amount of data from experiments. ‘Those who analyse this data intelligently can ...

Described in the paper 24.58% efficient commercial n-type silicon solar cells with hydrogenation, published in Progress in Photovoltaics, the novel technique consists of incorporating the ...

A research group led by Prof. GUO Jianping and Prof. CHEN Ping from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the collaborators, developed atomically dispersed ...