by Thomas | Feb 14, 2023 | Research highlights
Jamal Abdul Nasir, University College London The copper-exchanged zeolite Cu-CHA has received considerable attention in recent years, owing to its application in the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx species. We have studied the NH3-SCR reaction mechanism on...
by Thomas | Feb 13, 2023 | Research highlights
Xingfan Zhang, University College London Polarisable shell-model potentials are widely used for modelling charged defects in solids. However, at the pure molecular mechanics (MM) level of theory, the calculated defect energetics may not satisfy the requirement of...
by RIG Admin | Jun 26, 2020 | Research highlights
Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin 2 (KR2) is a light-driven sodium pump that actively transports small cations across cellular membranes. Such pumps are used by microbes to convert light into a membrane potential and have become useful optogenetic tools with...
by RIG Admin | Jan 28, 2020 | Research highlights
The iron-molybdenum (FeMoco) and iron-vanadium cofactors (FeVco) in the molybdenum/vanadium nitrogenase enzymes catalyze the reduction of dinitrogen at ambient temperature and pressure to ammonia according to the reaction equation: N2 +8H+ 8e- +16MgATP→ H2 +...
by RIG Admin | Nov 7, 2019 | Research highlights
GaN is a wide gap semiconductor that is a crucial component of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs), which are essential for solid state lighting. Both n- and p-type layers are required for LEDs, but achieving p-type GaN is very difficult; the only successful method is...
by RIG Admin | Jul 25, 2019 | Research highlights
TiO2 is a key material for photocatalytic water splitting, where it has been found that samples composed of mixtures of the anatase and rutile polymorphs outperform the pure phase samples. Several explanations for this observation were proposed with no consensus being...
