{"id":225073,"date":"2025-11-14T01:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/algorithms-reveal-how-propane-becomes-propylene-for-everyday-products"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:18:54","slug":"algorithms-reveal-how-propane-becomes-propylene-for-everyday-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/algorithms-reveal-how-propane-becomes-propylene-for-everyday-products","title":{"rendered":"Algorithms reveal how propane becomes propylene for everyday products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/algorithms-reveal-how-propane-becomes-propylene-for-everyday-products.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Countless everyday products, from plastic squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture, are derived by first turning propane into propylene.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-03-nanoscale-tandem-catalyst-propylene-propane.html\">2021 study<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i> demonstrated that chemists could use tandem nanoscale catalysts to integrate multiple steps of the process into a single reaction\u2014a way for companies to increase yield and save money. But it was unclear what was happening at the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic level<\/a>, making it difficult to apply the technique to other key industrial processes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed algorithms that show the key atomic features driving the complex chemistry when the nanoscale catalysts turn propane into propylene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countless everyday products, from plastic squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture, are derived by first turning propane into propylene. A 2021 study in Science demonstrated that chemists could use tandem nanoscale catalysts to integrate multiple steps of the process into a single reaction\u2014a way for companies to increase yield and save money. But it was unclear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-information-science","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225073","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}