{"id":184416,"date":"2024-03-08T22:15:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/aluminum-nanoparticles-make-tunable-green-catalysts"},"modified":"2024-03-08T22:15:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:15:03","slug":"aluminum-nanoparticles-make-tunable-green-catalysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/aluminum-nanoparticles-make-tunable-green-catalysts","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum nanoparticles make tunable green catalysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aluminum-nanoparticles-make-tunable-green-catalysts3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catalysts unlock pathways for chemical reactions to unfold at faster and more efficient rates, and the development of new catalytic technologies is a critical part of the green energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>The Rice University lab of nanotechnology pioneer Naomi Halas has uncovered a transformative approach to harnessing the catalytic power of aluminum nanoparticles by annealing them in various gas atmospheres at high temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2321852121\">published<\/a> in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, Rice researchers and collaborators showed that changing the structure of the oxide layer that coats the particles modifies their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/catalytic+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">catalytic properties<\/a>, making them a versatile tool that can be tailored to suit the needs of different contexts of use from the production of sustainable fuels to water-based reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalysts unlock pathways for chemical reactions to unfold at faster and more efficient rates, and the development of new catalytic technologies is a critical part of the green energy transition. The Rice University lab of nanotechnology pioneer Naomi Halas has uncovered a transformative approach to harnessing the catalytic power of aluminum nanoparticles by annealing them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}