{"id":210645,"date":"2025-04-05T17:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/single-atom-catalysts-transform-hydrogenation-improving-food-and-fuel-production"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:04:54","slug":"single-atom-catalysts-transform-hydrogenation-improving-food-and-fuel-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/single-atom-catalysts-transform-hydrogenation-improving-food-and-fuel-production","title":{"rendered":"Single-atom catalysts transform hydrogenation, improving food and fuel production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-atom-catalysts-transform-hydrogenation-improving-food-and-fuel-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A chemical reaction that\u2019s vital to a range of commercial and industrial goods may soon be initiated more effectively and less expensively thanks to a collaboration that included Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08747-z\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature<\/i><\/a>, involves <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/hydrogenation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogenation <\/a>\u2014adding the diatomic hydrogen molecule, H<sub>2<\/sub>, to other compounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHydrogenation is a critical and diverse reaction used to create food products, fuels, commodity chemicals and pharmaceuticals,\u201d said Zhenxing Feng, associate professor of chemical engineering. \u201cHowever, for the reaction to be economically viable, a catalyst such as palladium or platinum is invariably required to increase its reaction rate and thus lower cost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chemical reaction that\u2019s vital to a range of commercial and industrial goods may soon be initiated more effectively and less expensively thanks to a collaboration that included Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers. The study, published in Nature, involves hydrogenation \u2014adding the diatomic hydrogen molecule, H2, to other compounds. \u201cHydrogenation is a critical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,1506,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-food","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210645","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=210645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}