Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry (LSK)

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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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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.

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•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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•Energy and Climate

PUBLISHED IN NATURE: A stable low-temperature H2-production catalyst by crowding Pt on α-MoC

Platinum isolated atoms and clusters supported on molybdenum carbide have been extensively characterized. The presence of both species is essential to boost the stability, so that the catalysts displays high metal-normalized turnover number of 4,300,000 moles of hydrogen per mole of platinum

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  • Artsiusheuski M, Casati N, Clark A, Nachtegaal M, Verel R, van Bokhoven J, et al.
    Controlling the mechanism of nucleation and growth enables synthesis of UiO‐66 metal‐organic framework with desired macroscopic properties
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2025; 64(4): e202415919 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202415919
    DORA PSI
  • Artsiusheuski MA, Guo J, Kulkarni AR, van Bokhoven JA, Sushkevich VL
    Low-temperature nonoxidative dehydrogenation of short-chain alkanes over copper(I) mordenite via chemical looping
    Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2025; 147(18): 15880-15889. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c04229
    DORA PSI
  • Asad M, Ahmed IA, Zafar F, Imran A, Khan MA, Akhtar N, et al.
    Machine learning optimized synthesis of Ag/Nitrodopamine-MWCNT hybrid for durable and high-performance OER catalysis
    Electrochimica Acta. 2025; 541(2025): 147398 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2025.147398
    DORA PSI
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