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Atom efficient PtCu bimetallic catalysts and ultra dilute alloys for the selective hydrogenation of furfural (2020)
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Taylor, M. J., Beaumont, S. K., Islam, M. J., Tsatsos, S., Parlett, C. A., Issacs, M. A., & Kyriakou, G. (2021). Atom efficient PtCu bimetallic catalysts and ultra dilute alloys for the selective hydrogenation of furfural. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 284, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2020.119737

A range of Pt:Cu bimetallic nanoparticles were investigated for the liquid-phase selective hydrogenation of furfural, an important platform biomass feedstock. Alloying of the two metals had a profound effect on the overall catalytic activity, providi... Read More about Atom efficient PtCu bimetallic catalysts and ultra dilute alloys for the selective hydrogenation of furfural.

Capture and Release Recyclable Dimethylaminomethyl-Calixarene Functional Cloths for Point-of-Use Removal of Highly Toxic Chromium Water Pollutants (2020)
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Bieber, V. S., Ozcelik, E., Cox, H. J., Ottley, C. J., Ratan, J. K., Karaman, M., …Badyal, J. P. S. (2020). Capture and Release Recyclable Dimethylaminomethyl-Calixarene Functional Cloths for Point-of-Use Removal of Highly Toxic Chromium Water Pollutants. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(46), 52136-52145. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c14772

Chromium(VI) contamination of drinking water arises from industrial activity wherever there is a lack of environmental legislation enforcement regarding the removal of such pollutants. Although it is possible to remove such harmful metal ions from dr... Read More about Capture and Release Recyclable Dimethylaminomethyl-Calixarene Functional Cloths for Point-of-Use Removal of Highly Toxic Chromium Water Pollutants.

A spatially orthogonal hierarchically porous acid–base catalyst for cascade and antagonistic reactions (2020)
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Isaacs, M. A., Parlett, C. M., Robinson, N., Durndell, L. J., Manayil, J. C., Beaumont, S. K., …Lee, A. F. (2020). A spatially orthogonal hierarchically porous acid–base catalyst for cascade and antagonistic reactions. Nature Catalysis, 3(11), 921-931. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-020-00526-5

Complex organic molecules are of great importance to research and industrial chemistry and typically synthesized from smaller building blocks by multistep reactions. The ability to perform multiple (distinct) transformations in a single reactor would... Read More about A spatially orthogonal hierarchically porous acid–base catalyst for cascade and antagonistic reactions.

Nickel-Catalysed Vapour-Phase Hydrogenation of Furfural, Insights into Reactivity and Deactivation (2020)
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MacIntosh, K. L., & Beaumont, S. K. (2020). Nickel-Catalysed Vapour-Phase Hydrogenation of Furfural, Insights into Reactivity and Deactivation. Topics in Catalysis, 63, 1446-1462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-020-01341-9

Furfural is a key bioderived platform molecule, and its hydrogenation affords access to a number of important chemical intermediates that can act as “drop-in” replacements to those derived from crude oil or novel alternatives with desirable propertie... Read More about Nickel-Catalysed Vapour-Phase Hydrogenation of Furfural, Insights into Reactivity and Deactivation.

Soft XAS as an in situ technique for the study of heterogeneous catalysts (2020)
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Beaumont, S. K. (2020). Soft XAS as an in situ technique for the study of heterogeneous catalysts. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22(34), 18747-18756. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cp00657b

Soft x-ray absorption in situ studies of heterogeneous catalysts have been applied to areas such as copper methanol oxidation catalysts and cobalt Fischer-Tropsch type catalysts over a period of around two decades. The technique has the potential to... Read More about Soft XAS as an in situ technique for the study of heterogeneous catalysts.