Important everyday products—from plastics to detergents—are made through chemical reactions that mostly use precious metals such as platinum as catalysts. Scientists have been searching for more ...

Platinum has long powered hydrogenation reactions across the chemical industry. But its cost and limited supply have pushed ...

Plastic is everywhere. From water bottles and food containers to household items and packaging, modern life depends heavily ...

Contemporary industrial nitrogen fixation largely relies on the energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process, which operates under extremely high temperatures and pressures. Metal carbides, as a promising ...

A Russian-Italian research group has developed a two-dimensional transition metal carbide, known as MXenes, to collect photocurrent in perovskite cells. The cells were built with an inverted ...

Diborides and carbides of transition metal elements, including zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), and tantalum (Ta), which are important members of the UHTCs family, exhibit good ablation resistance under ...

Synthetic control over morphology and crystal structure. Many applications depend on the crystal structure of the material and the crystal surfaces or faces present. To date, most of the metal carbide ...