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WHO KNEW? Eggs and meat both major catalysts of DIABETES

April 25, 2019 -

This is American medical advice getting regurgitated by chemical-medicine hucksters. "No pasta, no rice, no fruit, no potatoes, and no bread!" You have over done sugar, they tell you, and now you must inject insulin for the rest of your life in order to "control" your blood sugar and survive. You can not be healed of this – so the myth goes. But wait. Japan has one of the lowest rates of diabetes in the world, and no doctors there tell their patients this U.S. propaganda and ...

Researchers develop eco-friendly catalysts that can be used to produce renewable raw materials for plastic products

March 19, 2019 - catalysts that can work on HMF were made up of precious metals. Of course, these materials are rare and, thus, expensive. Therefore, researchers sought out cheaper alternatives. (Related: Are organized clean-ups really saving the world’s beaches?)Pure manganese dioxide can improve the production of bioplastics

Manganese dioxide-based catalysts are considered to be cheap yet effective substitutes for precious metal-based ones. These catalysts combine ...

Powerful lithium-air batteries may soon “take batteries to the next level,” reveals study

March 24, 2019 - catalysts into the battery.

A catalyst improves the rate of reactions in a chemical process. The storage of energy in a battery counts as one such process. So does the release of the stored energy.

The new catalysts are made from two-dimensional materials. A sheet of these materials is only as thick as a single atom. Ounce for ounce, these ultra-thin materials have much greater surface areas than conventional materials. (Related: Researchers develop ...

Researcher discovers way to transform waste aluminum foil into biofuel catalyst

September 12, 2017 -

Led by Ahmed I. Osman, an Early Career Researcher from Queen’s University’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the team has discovered a way to transform contaminated aluminum foil into pure aluminum salt crystals. These aluminum salt crystals can then serve as the starting materials, or alumina catalysts, for dimethyl ether, a non-toxic, clear-burning biofuel with potential as inexpensive an alternative energy source. Moreover, the alumina catalysts ...

Green and clean: Energy-efficient water purification system developed by scientists

June 14, 2019 - catalysts.

Beijing's Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Jiangsu's Yangzhou University (YZU) provided support to the researchers. They published their findings in the science journal Chem.

One of the senior authors of the study's paper is Dan Wang, a researcher at the CAS' Institute of Process Engineering (IPE). Wang explained that the widespread adoption of photocatalytic disinfection technology would greatly improve diminishing supplies of clean water and ...

Scientists are getting closer to creating artificial photosynthesis with new dual-atom catalyst which will help them harvest solar energy

February 19, 2020 - catalysts, or substances that increase the rate of chemical reactions, given its importance in generating renewable energy. (Related: Physics breakthrough can use sunlight to directly transform CO2 into clean fuels like methane, without using fossil fuels.)

Currently, researchers have been developing a heterogeneous catalyst for artificial photosynthesis, which they can use in large-scale operations. But a significant challenge in their work is that the atomic ...

Unlocking longevity and health with enzymes: Dr. Edward Howell’s “Enzyme Nutrition”

September 03, 2025 -

Dr. Edward Howell's seminal work "Enzyme Nutrition: The Food Enzyme Concept" presents a revolutionary understanding of how enzymes shape our health, longevity and metabolic efficiency.

At the heart of his theory is the idea that our lifespan is inversely linked to the rate at which we deplete our body's enzyme potential. The more we exhaust these vital biological catalysts, the shorter our lives may be. Howell argues that incorporating ...

Can we find a cleaner way to extract hydrogen from water?

July 16, 2019 - catalysts capable of splitting water into hydrogen gas and oxygen, a process known as hydrogen evolution. The discovery was groundbreaking for two reasons: Both are (1) inexpensive, and (2) abundant compared to other metals used for the job, like silver or platinum.

Copper, in particular, is known for being a great conductor of both heat and electricity. However, it's not as great when it comes to producing hydrogen – alone, that is. When titanium is added, the two ...

New 2D material called MXenes pioneers a path to greener fuel and fertilizer, study shows

November 09, 2025 - catalysts, MXenes can be precisely tuned at the atomic level to optimize their performance.

"We aim to expand our understanding of how materials function as catalysts under electrocatalytic conditions," said Dr. Abdoulaye Djire, a lead researcher on the project. "Ultimately, this knowledge may help us identify the key components needed to produce chemicals and fuels from earth-abundant resources."Scientists are opening a new chapter in green chemistry

The ...

Researchers examine the potential of photocatalysts to split water

October 05, 2021 -

Photocatalysts a cost-effective solution to splitting water

Recent research is exploring the potential of particulate catalysts as simple and cost-effective solutions to splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. In particular, scientists are exploring whether particulate catalysts can enable large-scale hydrogen production using solar energy. (Related: Researchers have designed a new solar device that may finally make hydrogen cars a reality.)

However, ...

New research simplifies the process of harvesting solar energy to generate fuels

April 13, 2019 -

As its name implies, water splitting is a method where the water molecules are broken up into their component hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The hydrogen atoms are collected and burned as a clean fuel that generates a lot of energy without producing air pollutants.

The process is helped along by catalysts that increase the chances of the chemical reactions that split water into hydrogen and oxygen. These catalysts are triggered by an external source of energy....

Novel chemistry method paves the way for large-scale production of bioplastic bottles

February 28, 2019 -

There is a growing demand for eco-friendly products that are made from renewable resources, use clean energy during the production process, and produce little in the way of toxic waste and byproducts. Some experts believe that non-food plants could provide the raw resources needed by these products.

Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is one such biomaterial. Derived from glucose found in non-food plants, it will undergo oxidation if certain metal catalysts are added....

Renewed science effort under way to turn water into fuel using energy from solar panels

January 09, 2019 - catalysts to facilitate more efficient and sustainable water-splitting technique. The researchers were able to identify an array of metal oxides that can serve as more effective catalysts that can accommodate greater solar energy to facilitate water-splitting.

“Most of the sun’s energy exists in the visible and infrared range, with very little in the ultraviolet. Unfortunately the most efficient photocatalysts, such as titanium dioxide, are only ...

Carbon is GOOD: MIT chemical engineers create a material that can repair itself using carbon from the air

January 04, 2019 - catalysts for the carbon-fixing process.

A chloroplast is the biological part of a photosynthetic organism that is responsible for photosynthesis. They use sunlight as an energy source to turn carbon dioxide into glucose. The transplanted chloroplasts in the gel perform this process as well.

Normally, chloroplasts break down within a few hours after they are extracted from a plant. The MIT researchers found a way to make the non-living organelles in the gel ...

Reusing CO2: Scientists are closer to converting it to clean energy

March 27, 2018 - catalysts just aren't very effective. And it is said that the main reason for this is the presence of a competing reaction, which is called the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). It ends up taking precedence over the CO2 conversion reaction, so any attempt to initiate it ultimately fails.

There are ways to prevent HER from happening, and thereby convert CO2 directly into CO, but they require the use of so-called noble metals like gold and platinum. These are indeed ...

Dual-function catalyst produces hydrogen fuel while cleaning up polluted water

March 21, 2021 - catalysts. It also remained stable after being used for more than 1,000 hours.

"This study not only improved the slow oxygen-generating reaction rate problem but also solved the price and stability problems of existing commercial catalysts at the same time," said Kwang Kim, a professor of chemistry at UNIST and one of the study researchers.

Compared to iridium, nickel and iron are cheaper and more widely available.

"We expect that the newly ...

Energy from an unlikely source: A combination of microbes and graphene could make inexpensive and eco-friendly energy

March 07, 2020 - catalysts. The team, however, has demonstrated that a graphene biohybrid material could serve as an inexpensive and eco-friendly alternative to these rare metals.Making electrocatalysts with graphene

Made out of a sheet of carbon that's just a single layer of atoms thick, graphene—as well as the closely related graphene oxide—is highly conductive, mechanically robust and widely available. However, turning both graphene and graphene oxide into active electrocatalysts ...

How to increase your GABA levels naturally

October 21, 2018 -

Neurotransmitters are chemicals responsible for communication between brain cells. These can be classified based on what purpose they serve in the body. GABA, in particular, is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter that is responsible for slowing down brain activity. Unfortunately, some people do not produce enough GABA due to factors such as diet, prescription of anti-anxiety drugs, lack of sleep, and immune breakdown of catalysts required for GABA production.

GABA ...

FDA now concedes that Natural News was right all along about trans fats: Deadly modified fats to be banned from human foods within 3 years

July 08, 2015 - FDA now concedes that Natural News was right all along about trans fats: Deadly modified fats to be banned from human foods within 3 years

Wednesday, July 08, 2015 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writerTags: trans fats, FDA, toxic ingredients

Hydrogenation process to create trans fats involves use of metal-based catalysts

Just because a product says it contains "zero grams of trans fat per serving" doesn't mean it's truly trans fat-free

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Oceans are teeming with undiscovered microbes

August 02, 2006 - catalysts of energy transformation, and fundamental to the biogeochemical cycles that shape our planetary atmosphere and environment."###

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