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Shedding light on the undiscovered pathways of yeast metabolism 揭示酵母未被发现的代谢途径

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01529-4

Vikas D. Trivedi, Steve Mathew D A

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Supramolecular control of cationic intermediates 阳离子中间体的超分子控制

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01534-7

Jan-Stefan Völler

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Zeolites like to move it 沸石喜欢移动它

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01536-5

Davide Esposito

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Catalysing conductivity in solid-phase electroconversions 固相电转化中的催化电导率

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01527-6

Zhuojun Zhang, Xu Xiao, Peng Tan

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Constrains to improve hydrogenations 限制改善氢化

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01520-z

Javier Ruiz-Martínez

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Photobiocatalytic stereocontrol of two prochiral radicals 两个前手性自由基的光生物催化立体控制

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01528-5

Sangoji Dheeraj, Thangavelu Saravanan

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Splitting water under dryness 在干燥状态下使水分裂

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01537-4

Benjamin Martindale

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Breaking insulating barriers in solid-phase conversion reactions with dual-atom catalysts for high-energy lithium batteries 高能锂电池用双原子催化剂固相转化反应中绝缘障碍的打破

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01525-8

Tong Yu (, ), Ru Xiao (, ), Pei Tang (, ), Nan Piao (, ), Ruopian Fang (, ), Bo-Quan Li (, ), Zhuangnan Li (, ), Hui-Ming Cheng (, ), Zhenhua Sun (, ), Feng Li (, )

{"title":"Breaking insulating barriers in solid-phase conversion reactions with dual-atom catalysts for high-energy lithium batteries","authors":"Tong Yu \u0000 (, ), Ru Xiao \u0000 (, ), Pei Tang \u0000 (, ), Nan Piao \u0000 (, ), Ruopian Fang \u0000 (, ), Bo-Quan Li \u0000 (, ), Zhuangnan Li \u0000 (, ), Hui-Ming Cheng \u0000 (, ), Zhenhua Sun \u0000 (, ), Feng Li \u0000 (, )","doi":"10.1038/s41929-026-01525-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41929-026-01525-8","url":null,"abstract":"Batteries based on redox chemistry, such as lithium–sulfur and lithium–oxygen, can store more energy than conventional lithium-ion batteries. However, their chemical reactions are limited by sluggish and incomplete conversion reactions, especially those involving insulating solid intermediates (for example, Li2S2 and Li2O2), in which electrocatalysts play a decisive role. Here, through a large-scale theoretical analysis, we propose an electronic property criterion that emphasizes the efficient conduction of ions and electrons as essential for high catalytic activity. Guided by this insight, we have designed a CoCo dual-atom catalyst that accelerates the conversion of solid insulating Li2S2 and Li2O2 intermediates by effective orbital coupling, making these intermediates conductive and catalytically active. This strategy enables the fabrication of high-energy lithium–sulfur pouch cells at the ampere hour scale, achieving a specific energy of 459 Wh kg−1. Our results extend the fundamental understanding of rate-determining solid-phase reactions in redox chemistry and provide principles for the design of electrocatalysts for use in energy storage systems. Conversion-type batteries involving solid–solid transformations can store more energy than intercalation materials; however, their rates and cyclability have been limited by kinetics and incomplete conversion. This study introduces homonuclear dual-atom catalysts that increase the conductivity of insulating solid intermediates to enhance lithium–sulfur (and lithium–air) battery performance.","PeriodicalId":18845,"journal":{"name":"Nature Catalysis","volume":"9 4","pages":"460-470"},"PeriodicalIF":44.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Peaks and pitfalls of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction descriptor models 电催化CO2还原描述符模型的峰值和陷阱

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01526-7

Beomil Kim, Seungchang Han, Suneon Wang, Stefan Ringe, Jihun Oh

{"title":"Peaks and pitfalls of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction descriptor models","authors":"Beomil Kim, Seungchang Han, Suneon Wang, Stefan Ringe, Jihun Oh","doi":"10.1038/s41929-026-01526-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41929-026-01526-7","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying activity descriptors is critical for the development of efficient electrocatalysts. Here we systematically investigate the effect of electronic structure variations of metal alloys on the electrochemical CO2 reduction. For this, we prepare gold, silver and palladium alloys of various compositions, allowing to continuously tune the d-band centre and work function. Our results indicate that while the d-band centre is the decisive factor for CO production, the work function is needed additionally to explain the production rate of HCOO− and H2. By contrast, non-metal alloys with matching copper-like descriptor values showed no C2+ product formation. This breakdown of the descriptor model is explained from first-principles calculations by the heterogeneity and coverage distribution of the surface, which affects the multi-step reaction pathways for C2+ product formation. Our results highlight the problems in transferring conventional descriptor models to more complex, heterogeneous materials and multi-step reaction pathways. Descriptors have been used to predict product selectivity in electrocatalytic CO2 reduction on metals. This Analysis confirms that CO adsorption energy is suitable for predicting CO, but the work function is also needed to predict HCOO− and H2 selectivity. By contrast, the mechanism for C–C coupled products is too complex to predict using these simple descriptors.","PeriodicalId":18845,"journal":{"name":"Nature Catalysis","volume":"9 4","pages":"471-481"},"PeriodicalIF":44.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Atroposelective organocatalytic nucleophilic aromatic substitution for C–O bond construction 亲核芳香取代的C-O键结构

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Nature Catalysis Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-026-01522-x

Yan Guo, Lu Yu, Siqiang Fang, Shanshan Ding, Zhaowei Bao, Jixing Che, Xiao-Song Xue, Tianli Wang

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