{"id":210323,"date":"2025-04-01T21:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/illuminating-single-atoms-for-sustainable-propylene-production"},"modified":"2025-04-01T21:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:04:40","slug":"illuminating-single-atoms-for-sustainable-propylene-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/illuminating-single-atoms-for-sustainable-propylene-production","title":{"rendered":"Illuminating single atoms for sustainable propylene production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/illuminating-single-atoms-for-sustainable-propylene-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 150 million metric tons of propylene are produced annually, making it one of the most widespread chemicals used in the chemical industry.<\/p>\n<p>Propylene is the basis for polypropylene, a polymer used in everything from medical devices to packaging to household goods. But most <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/propylene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">propylene<\/a> is produced through steam cracking, a high-energy process that uses heat to break down crude oil into smaller hydrocarbons.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Northwestern University chemists have found a way to create propylene using light. Their findings show that a nanoengineered photoactive catalyst can make propylene directly through a process called nonoxidative propane dehydrogenation (PDH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150 million metric tons of propylene are produced annually, making it one of the most widespread chemicals used in the chemical industry. Propylene is the basis for polypropylene, a polymer used in everything from medical devices to packaging to household goods. But most propylene is produced through steam cracking, a high-energy process that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210323","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}