Enzymes, nature's most successful class of catalysts, show rates and selectivities in catalytic transformations seldom rivalled by synthetic catalysts. Apart from differences in size and mechanism of ...

Catalysts play an indispensable role in modern manufacturing. More than 80% of all manufactured products, from pharmaceuticals to plastics, rely on catalytic processes at some stage of production.

Bert M. Weckhuysen has a dream. Someday he’d like to produce a movie showing what happens on a catalytic solid at a submolecular level. That dream remains out of reach, he admits. But after more than ...

The Earth has finite resources and they’re not evenly distributed. As we use up the easy-to-access sources of ores and fossil fuels, some of the key foundations of modern society risk becoming rare ...