Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry (LSK)

The PSI Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry studies functioning catalysts for energy conversion and storage as well as for sustainable chemicals conversion.

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30.11.2021

•Innovation santé

•7 min

Nouveaux catalyseurs pour les firmes pharmaceutiques

Médecine

Industry Relations

Des chercheurs du PSI développent en commun avec Roche de nouveaux catalyseurs potentiellement plus efficaces pour la fabrication de principes actifs pour la médecine.

02.09.2021

Watch them growing: New mechanistic insights into catalytic methane coupling

Methane valorization is a promising technology to utilize this platform compound to produce aromatics and hydrocarbons. Researchers from PSI and ETH Zürich unveiled this reaction mechanism and observed the molecular growth from the ground up. Besides stepwise CH3 addition, novel routes involving the dimerization of resonantly stabilized propargyl (C₃H₃) radicals to benzene (C₆H₆) were identified. These mechanistic insights will aid the development of valorisation strategies.

27.01.2021

•Energy and Climate

The dynamics of overlayer formation on catalyst nanoparticles and strong metal-support interaction

The editors at Nature Communications have put together an Editors’ Highlights webpage of recent research called “Catalysis” and chose to feature Arik Beck's et al. article, entitled “The dynamics of overlayer formation on catalyst nanoparticles and strong metal-support interaction”.

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Publications

Aad G, Abbott B, Abeling K, Abicht NJ, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, et al.
Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a Z boson and a photon at the LHC
Physical Review Letters. 2024; 132(2): 021803 (32 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.021803
DORA PSI
Abel AC, Mühlethaler T, Dessin C, Schachtsiek T, Sammet B, Sharpe T, et al.
Bridging the maytansine and vinca sites: Cryptophycins target β-tubulin's T5-loop
Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2024; 300(6): 107363 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107363
DORA PSI
Abreu S, Chicherin D, Ita H, Page B, Sotnikov V, Tschernow W, et al.
All two-loop Feynman integrals for five-point one-mass scattering
Physical Review Letters. 2024; 132(14): 141601 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.141601
DORA PSI