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Our May issue is now online!
This month we cover redox-decoupled electrolysis for DAC, a knowledge graph framework for digital twins of chemical processes, plant-level decarbonization pathways of global oil refineries, and more!
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Our May editorial clarifies our perspective on the role of techno-economic analyses (TEAs) at the journal.
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A redox-decoupled electrolysis strategy that spatially separates CO2 liberation and sorbent regeneration, substantially improving current and energy efficiency.
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A plant-level low-carbon pathway model that reveals heterogeneous decarbonization pathways across oil refineries and quantifies the associated emissions reduction potential and mitigation costs.
Link (open access): https://t.co/n5T5i9VpI4
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Our May editorial clarifies our perspective on the role of techno-economic analyses (TEAs) at the journal.
Read it freely here: https://t.co/MtIpbwCsZE
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News & Views on the Article by Ashty Karim, Mike Jewett & co-workers
'Reforming a bridge between CO2 and bioproducts' by William Black & Han Li
News & Views: https://t.co/TLOyzBZB9O ($)
Original paper: https://t.co/sMHTb2hX3v ($)
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A knowledge graph framework for constructing evolvable predictive physical models to support digital twins for chemical processes, enabling the seamless incorporation of chemical databases, AI models and large language models.
Open access: https://t.co/3vRJhyKUxE
Our April editorial examines how agentic assistants increasingly mirror what many Review and Perspective articles do, at least on the surface.
If these tools can perform the same nominal function as a Review article, what purpose does a Review now serve?
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A Comment from Raffaella Buonsanti and colleagues examines the in situ regeneration of CO2 electroreduction metal catalysts as a tool to achieve operational stability.
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Our March editorial highlights strategies for bridging electrochemical reactions that have been intentionally separated into distinct environments, showing how inventive recoupling approaches can deliver improved performance and enable new chemistries.
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This Comment argues that the field must now shift focus to confront the unique engineering and deployment challenges of stack-scale systems, which represent a decisive frontier for achieving commercialization and climate impact.
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An alkaline polymer layer-coated proton-exchange-membrane electrolyzer that enables the co-electrolysis of CO2 and pure water, mitigating salt precipitation and carbon loss.
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Our April editorial examines how agentic assistants increasingly mirror what many Review and Perspective articles do, at least on the surface.
If these tools can perform the same nominal function as a Review article, what purpose does a Review now serve?
https://t.co/eYyEVwHFqu
Our April issue is now online!
This month we cover lignin-derived oligomers for sustainable epoxy resins, large-area ZIF-8 membranes for industrial propylene/propane separation, an alkaline polymer layer-coated PEM electrolyzer, and more!
Read it here: https://t.co/fnj8ovHoP8
Glad to summarize our adventures into Modular electrochemical synthesis in this recent Comment (minireview) in collaboration with Pau Kenis @ChBEIllinois and Victor Zavala @UWMadCBE 👇
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Bert Sels et al. use RCF to produce lignin oligomers tailored for efficient epoxidation. The process activates aliphatic hydroxyl groups, yielding highly functional lignin epoxy resins that form thermosets with near‑benchmark properties.
https://t.co/ONzcEtOCTG
In case you missed it, Núria López and colleagues report on the automated generation of reaction networks in heterogeneous catalysis. The capabilities of its kinetic module are shown by simulating Fischer–Tropsch networks with 37,000 reactions.
Link (OA): https://t.co/e5ZT41My72
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This new Comment article explores strategies for decoupling half-reactions to enable modular electrochemical synthesis and more flexible chemical manufacturing.
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A bit late, but our March issue is online!
This month we cover modular electrochemical synthesis, an end-to-end framework for reactivity in heterogeneous catalysis, active particle colonies, and more!
Read it here: https://t.co/JsWBPUBaPp