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  • Understanding the interplay between solvent, reactant and catalyst is important to advance towards upgrading biomass into useful products, but the process remains challenging. Now a study on guaiacol demethylation in water highlights the substantial shift in catalytic behaviour that occurs when moving from bulk water to the confined space within zeolite channels.

    • Massimo Bocus
    • Elias Van Den Broeck
    • Veronique Van Speybroeck
    Research
    Nature Catalysis
    Volume: 8, P: 33-45

  • Bisphenol A-based epoxy materials are important for their adhesive and mechanical properties, but safer alternatives are required for human exposure. Here, lignin-derived bisguaiacol P vinyl ester resin is shown as a promising non-estrogenic alternative with high biocompatibility and physico-mechanical properties. Peer Review Information: Communications Materials thanks the anonymous reviewers for their contribution to the peer review of this work. Primary Handling Editors: Steven Caliari and Jet-Sing.

    • Line Etiennot
    • Laura Trullemans
    • Kirsten L. Van Landuyt
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Materials
    Volume: 6, P: 1-14

  • Bisphenol A (BPA) is an essential building block for manufacturing plastics, but its adverse health effects have become a major concern. Here the authors show a zeolite-catalysed synthetitic route to bio-renewable BPA alternatives that feature excellent safety and preserve efficacy of function.

    • Laura Trullemans
    • Steven-Friso Koelewijn
    • Bert F. Sels
    Research
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 6, P: 1693-1704

  • The intrinsically hybrid nature of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) — microporous crystalline solids composed of metal ions and organic ligands — has been exploited to grow thin MOF films at the aqueous–organic interface of a biphasic reaction mixture. These materials exhibit selective permeability and can also be obtained as hollow capsules that have potential as microreactors.

    • Rob Ameloot
    • Frederik Vermoortele
    • Dirk E. De Vos
    Research
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 3, P: 382-387

  • CO2 capture with amines is an important technology for net zero, but is hampered by the high regeneration costs of the amines. Here, the authors develop an effective ZrOxHy solid catalyst for this process and demonstrate its applicability in a pilot test in a fixed-bed continuous reactor.

    • Cheng Zhou
    • Mostafa Torka Beydokhti
    • Bert F. Sels
    Research
    Nature Catalysis
    Volume: 8, P: 270-281

  • The knowledge of semiconductor photocatalysis in C − H bond activation remains limited. Here, the authors report comprehensive mechanistic studies to unveil the semiconductor-rare concerted proton-coupled electron transfer mechanism for C − H bond activation over Zn-In-S.

    • Xuejiao Wu
    • Xueting Fan
    • Bert Sels
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-11

  • Nitrous-oxide-mediated oxidation reactions can be effectively promoted by iron-containing zeolites, although structural information on the interaction between oxidant and metal centre is limited. Here, the authors report the characterization of the N2O-ligated Fe(ii) active site in iron-exchanged zeolite beta.

    • Max L. Bols
    • Benjamin E. R. Snyder
    • Bert F. Sels
    Research
    Nature Catalysis
    Volume: 4, P: 332-340

  • Integrating biofuel production with petrorefinery operations offers potential efficiency savings, but is technologically immature. Here, Deneyer et al. use a two-phase catalytic process that converts (hemi)cellulose into light naphtha, utilizing petro-derived solvent streams to deliver a fuel containing 10% bio-derived carbon.

    • Aron Deneyer
    • Elise Peeters
    • Bert F. Sels
    Research
    Nature Energy
    Volume: 3, P: 969-977

  • A study introduces curcumin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis by expressing the turmeric genes DIKETIDE-CoA SYNTHASE and CURCUMIN SYNTHASE 2, and the monomers curcumin and phenylpentanoids were successfully incorporated into the lignin cell wall to enhance biomass processing.

    • Paula Oyarce
    • Barbara De Meester
    • Wout Boerjan
    Research
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 5, P: 225-237

  • Iron-containing zeolites have an exceptional ability to convert methane into methanol, but their active site have been hard to study; now, magnetic circular dichroism has been used to explore the reactive species, providing a technique that should be generally applicable, and revealing the value of constraining active sites within a lattice to improve catalyst functionality.

    • Benjamin E. R. Snyder
    • Pieter Vanelderen
    • Edward I. Solomon
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 536, P: 317-321