{"id":4141,"date":"2025-08-08T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finden.co.uk\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:54:50","slug":"methane-splitting-to-hydrogen-and-base-growth-carbon-nanotubes-over-fe-based-catalysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finden.co.uk\/zh\/uncategorized\/methane-splitting-to-hydrogen-and-base-growth-carbon-nanotubes-over-fe-based-catalysts\/","title":{"rendered":"Methane splitting to hydrogen and base growth carbon nanotubes over Fe-based catalysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4143\" style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4143\" class=\"wp-image-4143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.finden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-s2.0-S0926337325006903-ga1_lrg.jpg\" alt=\"Graphical abstract for publication Methane splitting to hydrogen and base growth carbon nanotubes over Fe-based catalysts\" width=\"643\" height=\"424\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Ilenia Giarnieri, Universit\u00e0 di Bologna<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">We were proud to work on a new publication\u00a0<\/span>for the Storming EU Project- &#8220;Methane splitting to hydrogen and base growth carbon nanotubes over Fe-based catalysts&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">The work highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cost-effective route to H\u2082 and added value CNTs from methane splitting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reaction conditions tailor the catalyst properties and carbon nanotubes growth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hydrotalcite-derived FeMgAl catalysts enable base-growth of carbon nanotubes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fe3C species identified by\u00a0<em>in situ<\/em>\u00a0XRD plays a key role in the activation of CH4.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Smaller energy barrier of the first dehydrogenation step of CH4\u00a0for Fe3C than Ni.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Our PhD student, Antonia Bobitan, Managing Director, Simon Jaques and Chief Scientific Officer, Andrew Beale collaborated with authors Ilenia Giarnieri, Vito Foder\u00e0, Esteban Gioria, Lucy Costley-Wood, Andrea Bertuzzi, Francesca Ospitali, Giuseppe Fornasari, Christian Danvad Damsgaard, M. Clelia Righi and Patricia Benito Martin. The institutions involved were<\/span> Universit\u00e0 di Bologna, University College London, Research Complex at Harwell and Technical University of Denmark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m excited for our work to have been published and I&#8217;m happy to be a part of the STORMING project. It was a great feeling when the<i> in situ<\/i> XRD experiment confirmed our hypothesis about the role of Fe3C! ~ Antonia Bobitan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Read the full article at <a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Persistent link using digital object identifier\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.apcatb.2025.125707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Persistent link using digital object identifier\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.apcatb.2025.125707&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1754579284447000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ZjDhQGXtUCUz0l5R8-CNX\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.<wbr \/>apcatb.2025.125707<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Information on the Storming EU project can be found at <a style=\"color: #000000;\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/storming-project.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/storming-project.eu\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1754579284447000&amp;usg=AOvVaw019pILpLTS81bqTtrNckdG\">storming-project.eu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This work has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement n\u00b0 101069690 (STORMING).\u00a0 Finden is supported through the Innovate UK \/ UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee Scheme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/EUandUKflags.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.finden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/EUandUKflags.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UKflagforHorizonprojects.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.finden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UKflagforHorizonprojects.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.finden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UKflagforHorizonprojects.png 318w, https:\/\/www.finden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UKflagforHorizonprojects-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were proud to work on a new publication\u00a0for the Storming EU Project- &#8220;Methane splitting to hydrogen and base growth carbon nanotubes over Fe-based catalysts&#8221;.\u00a0 The work highlights: Cost-effective route to H\u2082 and added value CNTs from methane splitting. Reaction conditions tailor the catalyst properties and carbon nanotubes growth. 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