New Insights into Ammonia Decomposition

How to make hydrogen transportable

10-Oct-2024 - Using ammonia is regarded as a promising method of transporting hydrogen. However, an efficient process is also needed to convert it back into hydrogen and nitrogen. An international research team has gained new insights into the mode of operation of an iron catalyst that can be used to split ...

Nitrogen-based compoundsdiscovered as new high-performance energy storage materials

"High-pressure chemistry demonstrates the existence and diversity of polynitrides, opening perspectives for their applications in science and technology"

21-Mar-2024 - Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have synthesized unique scandium polynitrides under extreme conditions, with exotic chemistry and potential applications as high-energy-density materials. Their results are published in the “Nature Communications” journal. High-energy density materials ...

Feeding plants with electricity

Electrochemists develop sustainable alternative to conventional fertilizer

05-Mar-2024 - While all living beings need nitrogen in order to survive, it is not so easy to absorb it. Plants, for example, can absorb it as salts of ammonia, which makes these salts a key component of fertilizers. Up to now, ammonia has mainly been produced on the basis of fossil resources and non-renewable ...

Innovating Optoelectronic Components with Phosphorus

Significant breakthrough: phosphorus chemists develop new method to selectively introduce phosphorus and nitrogen atoms into polyaromatic systems

28-Nov-2023 - Phosphorus chemist Prof. Jan J. Weigand from the Dresden University of Technology, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, has developed a groundbreaking method to introduce phosphorus and nitrogen atoms into polycyclic molecules. This method holds the potential to pave the way for the ...

Charged “molecular beasts” the basis for new compounds

Researchers use “aggressive” fragments of molecular ions for chemical synthesis

07-Nov-2023 - Mass spectrometers are high-tech machines that play an important role in our society. They are highly sensitive analytical instruments that are indispensable in areas such as medical diagnostics, food quality control and the detection of hazardous chemical substances. The research group led by Dr ...

Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Nitrogen’s Solid Phase

Unprecedented insights into the gradual molecular-to-polymeric transformation of nitrogen and the formation of amorphous nitrogen

13-Oct-2023 - In a ground-breaking study led by the University of Bayreuth researchers, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and the University of Linköping, Sweden, the mysteries of nitrogen’s solid phases were solved, shedding light on its complex behaviour. Their findings, ...

New ammonia reaction could enable sustainable nitrogen source

New system for activation and catalytic transfer of ammonia - catalysis based on main group elements

05-Oct-2023 - A major goal of chemistry is to produce amines from ammonia and unsaturated hydrocarbons in a simple way. Moreover, during catalytic addition, in which ammonia is activated and then transferred, no waste is produced, making it particularly sustainable. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of ...

An international team presents a potentially groundbreaking discovery for nitrogen chemistry

First synthesis of a compound with aromatic nitrogen rings

08-Mar-2023 - For the first time, a compound containing aromatic rings of nitrogen atoms has been synthesized. The compound of nitrogen and potassium was produced under extremely high pressures and temperatures. It has a very complex structure, but its major building block is the planar ring of six nitrogen ...

Method found for analysing complex, tiny crystals

15-Feb-2023 - The atomic structure of solid substances can often be analysed quickly, easily and very precisely using X-rays. However, this requires that crystals of the corresponding substances exist. Chemist Professor Oliver Oeckler from Leipzig University and his team are developing methods to make this ...

Space Telescope unveils the dark side of pre-stellar ice chemistry

Chameleon I hides a wealth of frozen molecules

25-Jan-2023 - The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest, coldest regions of a molecular cloud measured to date has been announced by an international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This result allows astronomers to examine the simple icy molecules that will be ...