Catalysis
News Releases
Brookhaven's Top 10 Discoveries of 2024
Thursday, December 19, 2024
New Catalyst Recycles Methane Emissions at Room Temperature
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Reaction Conditions Tune Catalytic Selectivity
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Juan Jimenez Named Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
A Potential New Route to Super-Efficient Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Friday, September 6, 2024
Catalyst for 'One-Step' Conversion of Methane to Methanol
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Scientists Make and Test Efficient Water-Splitting Catalyst Predicted by Theory
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Study Reveals Reversible Assembly of Platinum Catalyst
Monday, June 3, 2024
CO2 Conversion Helps Industry, Addresses Climate
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Catalytic Combo Converts CO2 to Solid Carbon Nanofibers
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Department of Energy Announces $73 Million for Basic Research to Accelerate the Transition from Discovery to Commercialization
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Chemists Unravel Reaction Mechanism for Clean Energy Catalyst
Monday, May 15, 2023
Structure of 'Oil-Eating' Enzyme Opens Door to Bioengineered Catalysts
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Novel Chemical Reaction Supports Carbon-Neutral Industrial Processes
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Brookhaven Awarded $11M in Funding to Support Clean Energy Research
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Machine Learning Framework IDs Targets for Improving Catalysts
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Steering Conversion of CO2 and Ethane to Desired Products
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Converting Methane to Methanol—With and Without Water
Monday, November 8, 2021
Jose Rodriguez Named Fellow of the American Vacuum Society
Friday, October 15, 2021
Catalyst Study Advances Carbon-Dioxide-to-Ethanol Conversion
Friday, September 10, 2021
Chemistry Goes Under Cover
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Study Reveals Platinum's Role in Clean Fuel Conversion
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Coming Down the Pike: Long-Haul Trucks Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Brookhaven Lab Partners in New $40 M Research Center to Convert Sunlight to Liquid Fuels
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Department of Energy funds milestone North Carolina-led initiative to advance solar energy research
Friday, July 31, 2020
Water is Key in Catalytic Conversion of Methane to Methanol
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Two is Better Than One
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Upgrading Biomass with Selective Surface-Modified Catalysts
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Tethered Chem Combos Could Revolutionize Artificial Photosynthesis
Monday, November 4, 2019
Machine-Learning Analysis of X-ray Data Picks Out Key Catalytic Properties
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named DOE Office of Science Distinguished Fellows
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Rice Reactor Turns Greenhouse Gas Into Pure Liquid Fuel
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
New Core-Shell Catalyst for Ethanol Fuel Cells
Friday, June 7, 2019
Catalyst Renders Nerve Agents Harmless
Monday, April 22, 2019
Light-Activated, Single-Ion Catalyst Breaks Down Carbon Dioxide
Monday, November 26, 2018
Single Atoms Break Carbon's Strongest Bond
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Converting CO2 into Usable Energy
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Scientists Use Machine Learning to Translate 'Hidden' Information that Reveals Chemistry in Action
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
New Efficient Catalyst for Key Step in Artificial Photosynthesis
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Chemists ID Catalytic 'Key' for Converting CO2 to Methanol
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Scientists Boost Catalytic Activity for Key Chemical Reaction in Fuel Cells
Friday, December 16, 2016
Scientists Track Chemical and Structural Evolution of Catalytic Nanoparticles in 3D
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Brookhaven Lab Wins Three 2016 R&D 100 Awards
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Speeding Up Key Oxygen-Oxygen Bond-Formation Step in Water Oxidation
Monday, May 16, 2016
Robert M. Konik Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department
Monday, January 25, 2016
2015's Top 10 Scientific Advances at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Flipping Molecular Attachments Amps Up Activity of CO2 Catalyst
Monday, October 5, 2015
Nanostructured Metal-Oxide Catalyst Efficiently Converts CO2 to Methanol
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Top-10 Brookhaven Lab Breakthroughs of 2013
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Nanocrystal Catalyst Transforms Impure Hydrogen into Electricity
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Researchers Help Show New Way to Study and Improve Catalytic Reactions
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Exposure to Air Transforms Gold Alloys Into Catalytic Nanostructures
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Nanosheet Catalyst Discovered to Sustainably Split Hydrogen from Water
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Brookhaven Lab’s Adzic Named ‘Inventor of the Year’
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
New Catalyst for Safe, Reversible Hydrogen Storage
Sunday, March 18, 2012
N.E. Chemcat Corporation Licenses Brookhaven Lab's Electrocatalyst Technology for Fuel Cells in Electric Vehicles
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
New Highly Stable Fuel-Cell Catalyst Gets Strength from its Nano Core
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Brookhaven Lab Chemists Receive Patents for Fuel-Cell Catalysts
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Light Source Illuminates Nanomaterials, Catalysts, Alzheimer's and More
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
New Catalyst Could Boost Cleaner Fuel Use
Thursday, May 14, 2009
New Catalyst Paves the Path for Ethanol-Powered Fuel Cells
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Efficient Catalysts for Making Oxygen for 'Artificial Photosynthesis'
Monday, March 10, 2008
Experiments Reveal Unexpected Activity of Fuel Cell Catalysts
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Tiny Tubes and Rods Show Promise as Catalysts, Sunscreen
Monday, September 10, 2007
Gold, Copper Nanoparticles Take Center Stage in the Search for Hydrogen Production Catalysts
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Giving Platinum Catalysts a Golden Boost for Fuel Cells
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Brookhaven Lab Scientists Discover Gold Clusters Stabilize Platinum Electrocatalysts For Use in Fuel Cells
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Following Nature's Lead, Scientists Seek Better Catalysts
Monday, January 24, 2005
A Better Catalyst for Ammonia Production
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Designing a Better Catalyst for
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Features
Researchers Discover Potentially Cleaner Way to Make Important Chemical
Friday, February 21, 2025
Georgia Tech Researchers Develop More Efficient Approach for Turning Plant Biomass into Useful Chemicals
Friday, October 4, 2024
Conquering Cleaner Catalysis
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Finding the Catalyst for a More Sustainable Future
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Unexpected Behavior Seen in Efficient Catalysts for Clean Energy
Monday, July 25, 2022
Researchers Create Nanoparticles to Address Environmental Problems
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
SBU, Harvard Lead Research Team That Solves Longstanding Problem in Catalysis Science
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Probing the Powers of Zeolites
Monday, August 16, 2021
Jingguang Chen Wins 2020 AIChE Wilhelm Award
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Atomic Defect Lines Suppress Deactivation of Iron Oxide Catalysts
Friday, March 20, 2020
The Big Questions: José Rodriguez on Catalysts
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Interns Investigate Catalysts for a Greener Future
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Synchrotron Tools Aid NETL Research On Converting CO2 Into Useful Products
Friday, March 8, 2019
NETL Develops an Improved Process for Creating Building Blocks for $200 Billion Per Year Chemical Industry Market
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Journal Special Issues Honor Chemists Radoslav Adzic and Jan Hrbek
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Illuminating Nanoparticle Growth with X-rays
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Catalyst Advance Could Lead to Economical Fuel Cells
Friday, August 31, 2018
Producing Beneficial Propylene While Consuming a Major Greenhouse Gas
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Brookhaven Lab Chemist Etsuko Fujita to be Honored at Asian American and Pacific Islander Celebration
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Jingguang Chen is the Recipient of the 2017 Robert Burwell Lectureship in Catalysis
Monday, April 24, 2017
Brookhaven Lab, Stony Brook University Scientists Present Catalysis Research Opportunities at NSLS-II
Friday, April 21, 2017
Brookhaven Lab-Led Research Aims to Develop Protections Against Chemical Warfare Agents
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
AGEP-T FRAME Scientist Raul Acevedo Studies How Fuel Cells Behave in Space
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Q&A with CFN Scientist Anibal Boscoboinik
Thursday, December 29, 2016
NSLS-II User Profiles: Sana Rani & Alicia Broderick
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
New Catalyst for Making Methanol from Methane
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Moving Improvements in Electric Vehicle Fuel-Cell Catalysts from the Laboratory to the Highway
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
504th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 4/29: 'Catching Catalysis in the Act: In Situ Studies With X-Rays and Electrons'
Friday, April 24, 2015
499th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 11/19: 'Artificial Photosynthesis: Making and Breaking Bonds with Protons and Electrons'
Friday, November 14, 2014
Ionic Liquid Boosts Efficiency of CO2 Reduction Catalyst
Friday, June 6, 2014
The Play-by-Play of Energy Conversion: Catching Catalysts in Action
Monday, January 6, 2014
Small Particles, Big Findings
Friday, November 15, 2013
Electrocatalysis Pays Tribute to BNL Scientist Radoslav Adzic
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Local High School Sisters Win Major Award for Studies at Brookhaven Lab
Friday, November 2, 2012
Antagonistic Catalysis: Creating a Bifunctional and Tunable Acid-Base Catalyst
Thursday, March 29, 2012
New Supercomputers at Brookhaven will Advance Nanomaterial Design
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Designing Better Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Designing Better Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Videos
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Interface Science and Catalysis Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
December 5, 2016
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Scanning the Structure of Steel From Nuclear Reactor Vessels
May 27, 2015
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Catching Catalysis in the Act: In Situ Studies With X-Rays and Electrons
April 29, 2015
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Artificial Photosynthesis: Making and Breaking Bonds with Protons and Electrons
November 19, 2014
