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  • As part of the March Focus issue of Nature Chemical Engineering, we asked 13 leading researchers to spotlight a challenge or opportunity in reaction engineering that they believe holds particular promise for advancing this core area of chemical engineering research and practice.

    • Jeremy Luterbacher
    • Bert Weckhuysen
    • Hongliang Xin
    Reviews
    Nature Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 2, P: 156-159

  • Achieving atomic control during the synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts remains challenging. Here the authors tackle this challenge by applying a liquid-phase atomic layer deposition approach to the synthesis of Cu/ZrOx clusters on MgO as efficient catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol.

    • Seongmin Jin
    • Choah Kwon
    • Jeremy S. Luterbacher
    Research
    Nature Catalysis
    Volume: 7, P: 1199-1212

  • With a sustainable carbohydrate core, the proposed polyamide plastic design here can compete with fossil-based alternative in terms of both performance and cost.

    • Lorenz P. Manker
    • Maxime A. Hedou
    • Jeremy S. Luterbacher
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 7, P: 640-651

  • Solvents play a crucial role in catalysis, affecting both activity and selectivity. Here the authors demonstrate how solvent affinity to the catalyst surface influences the reaction pathways of 4-propylguaiacol.

    • Zihao Zhang
    • Qiang Li
    • Patrick Hemberger
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-10

  • An optimized Co–Ni alloy catalyst encapsulated with Sm2O3-doped CeO2 shows both high activity and stability for high-temperature CO2-to-CO conversion, overcoming the limitations of such catalysts typically used in industrial applications.

    • Wenchao Ma
    • Jordi Morales-Vidal
    • Xile Hu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 641, P: 1156-1161

  • Functionalizing an intact carbohydrate core with acetals allows for the dramatically simplified production of a plastic precursor directly during the initial fractionation of non-edible biomass. When polymerized, the rigid and polar carbohydrate core also leads to bioplastics with competitive material and end-of life properties.

    • Lorenz P. Manker
    • Graham R. Dick
    • Jeremy S. Luterbacher
    Research
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 14, P: 976-984

  • Chemically depolymerizing biomass polysaccharides to simple sugars is often controlled by the balance between depolymerization and degradation kinetics, which has limited the concentration of solutions that can be obtained and overall yields. The reversible stabilization of carbohydrates by acetal formation pushes back these limits and creates stabilized sugars that have advantageous properties for further upgrading.

    • Ydna M. Questell-Santiago
    • Raquel Zambrano-Varela
    • Jeremy S. Luterbacher
    Research
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 10, P: 1222-1228

  • Carbon–carbon bonds are ubiquitous in lignin, limiting monomer yields from current depolymerization strategies mainly targeting C–O bonds. Now, a bifunctional hydrocracking approach uses a Pt/zeolite catalyst to break C–C bonds in lignin waste, achieving monocyclic hydrocarbon yields up to 54 C%.

    • Zhicheng Luo
    • Chong Liu
    • Emiel J. M. Hensen
    Research
    Nature Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 1, P: 61-72

  • Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells are promising devices for energy conversion. Now, a porous nitrogen-doped carbon-supported PtRu catalyst for the hydrogen oxidation reaction is presented, consisting of Pt single atoms and PtRu nanoparticles that work synergistically. The catalyst enables a fuel cell that exceeds the US Department of Energy 2022 performance target.

    • Weiyan Ni
    • Josephine Lederballe Meibom
    • Xile Hu
    Research
    Nature Catalysis
    Volume: 6, P: 773-783

  • Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells are promising as an energy conversion technology, but require platinum group metal electrocatalysts for their application. A Ni-based hydrogen oxidation reaction catalyst is now shown to exhibit unprecedented electrochemical performance.

    • Weiyan Ni
    • Teng Wang
    • Xile Hu
    Research
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 21, P: 804-810

  • Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO is a route to synthesize fuels, but cheaper and more selective catalysts are required. Using a cell equipped with a bipolar membrane and the same Earth-abundant electrocatalyst at each electrode, Schreier et al. selectively produce CO, powered by a triple-junction photovoltaic.

    • Marcel Schreier
    • Florent Héroguel
    • Michael Grätzel
    Research
    Nature Energy
    Volume: 2, P: 1-9

  • Deconstructing plant-derived polymers into small molecules is necessary for biomass valorization but gives intermediates that undergo undesirable reactions. This Review describes how the intermediates can be converted into stable derivatives as renewable-platform chemicals.

    • Ydna M. Questell-Santiago
    • Maxim V. Galkin
    • Jeremy S. Luterbacher
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Chemistry
    Volume: 4, P: 311-330