Themed collection Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Open Access Spotlight 2026

Recent advances in homogeneous LOHC (de)hydrogenation catalysis, key challenges, and the way forward in LOHC technology.

This work reveals size–activity relationships in structurally sensitive reactions such as ammonia cracking by decoupling support and size effects through post-synthesis support of size-controlled flow synthesis nanoparticles.

Co-processing crude oil with green methanol can integrate renewable carbon into refining, but water and other hydrophilic compounds like methanol can strongly affect catalyst behavior, product selectivity, and overall process efficiency.

Over recent years, photocatalytic biomass reforming for hydrogen production has gained research attention as an alternative to the inefficient water-splitting reaction, which requires a standard Gibbs free energy of 237 kJ mol⁻¹.

Enzymatic degradation of organic pollutants by means of peroxidase extracted from soybean hulls. A multi-substrate kinetic model allows to understand the interactions between different molecules and simulate the reaction mechanism well.

The catalyst stability was monitored using a new ex situ approach based on standard analytical techniques, enabling the identification of ligand degradation pathways and providing a basis for real-time optimization of reaction conditions.

Integrating chemistry-oriented pre-trained models with augmented multi-source datasets to develop ProceduerT5 and enhance experimental procedure prediction across broader scenarios.

Mild hydrothermal aging selectively inhibits the oxidation half-cycle in low-temperature SCR; activity is fully restored by proportionally increasing oxygen pressure.

A benchtop NMR instrument in combination with spectral hard modeling enabled monitoring and subsequent kinetic fitting of a chlorination reaction. Different modes were investigated, an NMR tube, re-circulating batch and single pass continuous flow.

A workflow based on Bayesian methods for improving the univariate calibration approach for reaction monitoring using Infrared (IR) spectroscopy.

High-purity poly(ionic liquid)s with different anion sizes were prepared for the first time via careful dialysis. This work truly demonstrated that CO₂ adsorption capacity could be enhanced by designing counter anions.

An electrochemical emulsion microenvironment enables TEMPO-mediated selective oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes with high selectivity and broad substrate scope.

Accompanied by the generation of in situ gas, the rapid and highly exothermic gas–liquid–liquid three-phase reaction and kinetic study platform.

A SiO₂-based solid-dispensing method enables HTS of Cu-catalysed oxidative esterification of benzaldehyde to identify optimal reaction conditions across 96 parallel reactions.

This study presents a derivative-based optimization framework for nanoparticle synthesis. PBEs coupled with the exact Method of Moments enable optimal dynamic reactant inflow to minimize size variance while achieving a target mean diameter.

3D printing was successfully employed to fabricate structured ZSM-5-based catalysts with high catalytic activity in the methanol-to-DME reaction, good resistance to coke formation and high mechanical strength.

This study systematically investigates how plastic type and reactor temperature determine the gaseous, liquid, and solid products generated during high-temperature pyrolysis of plastic waste for hydrogen and carbon production.

Translation of batch amination to continuous manufacturing with on-line reaction monitoring.