Catalysis, an indispensable process in chemical engineering, requires energy, often in the form of heat, to activate the requisite chemical reactions. Photons ...

image: The introduction of light atomic species (e.g., H, B, C, and N) into noble metal lattices plays an important role in optimizing catalytic performance by modulating structural and electronic ...

A novel dye-sensitized photocatalyst developed at Science Tokyo enables the capture of long-wavelength visible light for ...

Photocatalysis is the use of light to accelerate the rate of a reaction in the presence of a photocatalyst. The catalyst plays a crucial role in this process—it absorbs the light being shined onto it ...

Turning methane into ethylene with sunlight sounds like alchemy, but it is rapidly moving into the realm of practical chemistry. A new generation of solar-driven catalysts promises to convert a potent ...

Converting a mixture of mirror-image forms, or stereoisomers, of a molecule into a single isomer is a big deal in making pharmaceuticals, because usually only one isomer is useful as a drug. But ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers have developed and analysed a series of manganese-based molecular complexes with the potential to advance photochemical and ...

Some molecules respond to light in a matter of seconds. In the case of this dithienylethene compound, ultraviolet light triggers a ring-forming reaction, turning the colorless solution deep red.