Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Potential of nonporous adaptive crystals for hydrocarbon separation

M Yan, Y Wang, J Chen, J Zhou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrocarbon separation is an important process in the field of petrochemical industry, which
provides a variety of raw materials for industrial production and a strong support for the …

Metal-free carbon materials-catalyzed sulfate radical-based advanced oxidation processes: a review on heterogeneous catalysts and applications

Q Zhao, Q Mao, Y Zhou, J Wei, X Liu, J Yang, L Luo… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), especially sulfate radical based
AOPs have been widely used in various fields of wastewater treatment due to their capability …

Applications of MAX phases and MXenes as catalysts

IM Chirica, AG Mirea, Ş Neaţu, M Florea… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
MAX phases and MXenes are important materials that have recently gained great popularity
due to their special properties, which render them particularly useful in many applications …

Catalysis by hybrid sp 2/sp 3 nanodiamonds and their role in the design of advanced nanocarbon materials

Y Lin, X Sun, DS Su, G Centi… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Hybrid sp2/sp3 nanocarbons, in particular sp3-hybridized ultra-dispersed nanodiamonds
and derivative materials, such as the sp3/sp2-hybridized bucky nanodiamonds and sp2 …

Cooperative sites in fully exposed Pd clusters for low-temperature direct dehydrogenation reaction

L Wang, J Diao, M Peng, Y Chen, X Cai, Y Deng… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Direct dehydrogenation of alkanes is of great interest but presents a significant challenge in
activating C–H bond at a low temperature. Here, we report fully exposed Pd clusters …

[HTML][HTML] A new perspective on polyethylene-promoted lignin pyrolysis with mass transfer and radical explanation

Y Fan, C Liu, X Kong, Y Han, M Lei, R Xiao - Green Energy & Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Co-pyrolysis of lignin and waste plastics, for example polyethylene (PE), has been studied,
but related reports are basically on condition optimizations. This study revealed a new …

Ti3C2Tx MXene Catalyzed Ethylbenzene Dehydrogenation: Active Sites and Mechanism Exploration from both Experimental and Theoretical Aspects

J Diao, M Hu, Z Lian, Z Li, H Zhang, F Huang, B Li… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional materials (such as graphene, MXenes) usually perform remarkably well as
catalysts in comparison with their three-dimensional counterparts. In this work, Ti3AlC2 …

Photo-fluorination of nanodiamonds catalyzing oxidative dehydrogenation reaction of ethylbenzene

Z Luo, Q Wan, Z Yu, S Lin, Z Xie, X Wang - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Styrene is one of the most important industrial monomers and is traditionally synthesized via
the dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene. Here, we report a photo-induced fluorination …

Very efficient dehydrogenation of methanolysis reaction with nitrogen doped Chlorella Vulgaris microalgae carbon as metal-free catalysts

C Saka - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, nitrogen (N) doped metal-free catalysts were obtained as a result of nitric acid
(HNO 3) activation of carbon sample (C–KOH–N), which was obtained based on Chlorella …