Ethanol, as one of the important bulk chemicals, is widely used in modern society. It can be
produced by fermentation of sugar, petroleum refining, or conversion of syngas (CO/H2) …

The demand for virgin polymers is constantly increasing owing to the desired performance
and low recycling rates of polymers; however, this exacerbates significant plastic-industry …

Bulk chemicals such as ethylene glycol (EG) can be industrially synthesized from either
ethylene or syngas, but the latter undergoes a bottleneck reaction and requires high …

Copper nanoparticle–based catalysts have been extensively applied in industry, but the
nanoparticles tend to sinter into larger ones in the chemical atmospheres, which is …

Selective hydrogenation reactions provide a pivotal and promising strategy for upgrading
substances with unsaturated functional groups, in which supported non-noble metal …

In the utilization of renewable resources derived from biomass, hydrodeoxygenation (HDO)
is one of the most critical steps in the bio-oil upgrading process. Herein, a series of copper …

Carbon-oxygen bond hydrogenation serves as a versatile fundamental reaction extensively
applied in chemicals synthesis, but rational design of heterogeneous catalysts with …

Upgrading biomass-derived ethanol to higher alcohols is a significantly promising process
involving multi-step tandem reactions finely regulated by multiple active sites. However, the …

Taking advantage of the inherent structure in biomass for attractive chemical synthesis with
high atom economy is vital for a sustainable future but remains a great challenge. Herein …

In this work, defect-rich 1 T-MoS 2 nanosheets are successfully synthesized by solvothermal
method with acetic acid as the templating agent. It is found that changing the concentration …