Supported metal nanoparticles, M-NPs, are of great scientific and economic interest as they
encompass application in chemical manufacturing, oil refining and environmental catalysis …

Applications of renewable biomass provide facile routes to alleviate the shortage of fossil
fuels as well as to reduce the emission of CO 2. Glycerol, which is currently produced as a …

The depleting petroleum oil resources, political embargos, and global warming dilemma
have made it mandatory to develop alternative green technologies for energy and chemical …

The catalytic hydrogenolysis of readily available glycerol to 1, 2-propanediol (1, 2-PD) and
1, 3-propanediol (1, 3-PD), which provides a new promising synthesis route to produce …

Cu‐based catalysts exhibit excellent performance in hydrogenation reactions. However, the
poor stability of Cu catalysts under high temperatures has restricted their practical …

Glycerol is one of the most attractive platform chemicals and catalytic upgrading of glycerol
to valuable products is of great importance. In the past decade, synthesis of 1, 2-propanediol …

The size of copper nanoparticles affects the intrinsic rate of methanol and CO formation in
the hydrogenation of CO 2 at 230–270° C and total pressure 8 bar. Cu/SiO 2 catalysts with …

Selective conversion of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) can produce sustainable fuels and
chemicals. Herein, Cu–ZnO catalysts derived from minerals (malachite, rosasite and …

Coconut shell activated carbon (AC) is treated by nitric acid and used as a support to
prepare nano-copper heterogeneous catalysts for oxidative carbonylation of methanol to …

A highly efficient and robust Cu/SiO2 catalyst from a pure-phase copper phyllosilicate
precursor was successfully fabricated by the ammonia evaporation hydrothermal (AEH) …