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Innovative zeolite-supported platinum catalysts for highly efficient propane-to-propylene conversion

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Obtaining feedstocks through catalytic processes is of fundamental importance for the chemical industry. The shale gas revolution has shifted propylene production from naphtha cracking to targeted production with propane dehydrogenation (PDH) as the dominant technology. Recent studies, conducted jointly by Chinese research teams from the Universities of Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Dalian, in collaboration with Professor […]

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An international research group, coordinated by the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds of the National Research Council (CNR-ICCOM) of Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) and by the European Laboratory of Non-Linear Spectroscopies (LENS) of the University of Florence, managed to synthesize for the first time a compound whose existence has long been hypothesized, but never experimentally […]

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A study by an international team, which was attended by researchers from the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa (Ilaria Bonaduce and Celia Duce), the National Interuniversity Consortium for Materials Science and Technology (INSTM) and the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds of the CNR (Emilia Bramanti), revealed important aspects […]

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A recent study by researchers from the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (CNR-ICCOM) and Institute of Nanosciences (CNR-NANO), in collaboration with colleagues from Princeton University, Aramco Research Center-Houston, Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Trento and Queen Mary University of London, published in the journal Materials Today, demonstrated the possibility of transforming specific proteins (albumins) […]

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A key technological obstacle to the widespread adoption of proton exchange membrane fuel cells is the development of highly active and durable platinum-based catalysts to accelerate the slow oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). A team of CNR researchers from the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (CNR-ICCOM) and the Institute for Physical Chemistry Processes (CNR-IPCF), in […]

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A team of CNR-ICCOM researchers from the Bari (Caterina Fusco) and Sesto Fiorentino sites (Werner Oberhauser), in collaboration with colleagues from the Chemistry Department of the University of Bari Michele Casiello, Pasquale Pisani, with Antonio Monopoli, Angelo Nacci and Lucia D’Accolti (ICCOM associates), of CNR-NANOTEC site in Bari (Firenza Fanelli) and the Research and Development […]

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The price of hydrogen produced with sustainable alternative processes, such as electrolysis and water splitting using sunlight, still makes these technologies uncompetitive from an economic point of view. In the context of the European Union Green Deal and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), which promote a sustainable energy transition, new technologies to produce […]

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Researchers from the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (ICCOM) of the National Research Council (CNR) have studied the production of green hydrogen from water in the laboratories of Sesto Fiorentino (FI), discovering that this can be promoted by a dinuclear organometallic complex of ruthenium in a polymer membrane electrolytic cell (PEM). The study was […]

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An international research group including researchers from the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds of the National Research Council (CNR-ICCOM), from the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Sesto Fiorentino, from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) of Grenoble (France) and the Chemistry Departments of the Universities of Florence and Pavia, managed to induce […]

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A recent study, published on Nature Communications, describes the discovery of a new synthesis of phosphine (PH3) starting from the elements under conditions of high pressure and high temperature in the absence of catalysts. The study, carried out by a team of researchers of the Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds of the National Research […]

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Innovative zeolite-supported platinum catalysts for highly efficient propane-to-propylene conversion

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The discovery of a new synthesis of phosphine (PH3) and the missing compound (PH3)2H2