Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions in living organisms. They are essential for life, as they play a crucial role in various biological processes, such as digestion, ...

Arifur Rahim from Monash University's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, created a self-regenerating catalytic system with unprecedented efficiency. The new catalyst demonstrated ...

A new light-activated catalyst breaks and resets carbon–halogen bonds to convert racemic mixtures into enantiomerically ...

Our researchers study catalysts that may be small molecules, biological macromolecules, or solid materials, which harness light, electricity, or thermal energy as inputs. An important area of research ...

This revelation advances our understanding of evolutionary biology and suggests that it might be possible for biological ...

Enzymes are generally proteins but also include catalytic DNA and catalytic RNA. As effective biological catalysts, enzymes work by lowering a reaction’s activation energy barrier, thereby ...

A catalyst increases the rate of a reaction but it is not used up in the reaction. If a catalyst is present, the reacting particles can collide more successfully with less energy and so the ...

At present, heterogeneous catalysts are largely still investigated using trial and error, and a great deal of luck. In many situations, a particular "recipe" is discovered that works quite well, and ...

Enzymes are biological catalysts which speed up chemical reactions. In this video, Greg Foot explains how the structure of DNA affects the proteins made in DNA synthesis.

Biocatalysis is the chemical process through which enzymes or other biological catalysts perform reactions between organic components. Biocatalysis has been used widely in the pharmaceutical ...