Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00299-3
Controlled depostion of amorphous zeolitic imidazolate framework (aZIF) films has proved challenging. Now, a spin-on deposition method is developed for aZIF films, enabling nanometer control of film thickness and uniformity at the wafer scale. Coupled with computational fluid dynamics simulations, this approach can be used to fabricate aZIF resists for advanced lithography applications.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00300-z
In this Editorial, we outline our interest in biological systems research, highlighting how fundamental chemical engineering principles can help translate biophysical complexity into practical, transferable design strategies.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00295-7
Yanfei Zhu
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Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00283-x
Keshia Saradima Indriadi, Sie Shing Wong, Peijie Han, Sikai Wang, Di Xu, Ning Yan
Ammonia decomposition is a key reaction in the green hydrogen economy because ammonia is an important carbon-free hydrogen carrier. In contrast to the prevalent focus on developing active catalysts to address the reaction’s slow kinetics at low temperatures, we introduce a tungsten wire lightbulb reactor that operates at unconventionally locally high temperatures while maintaining enhanced efficiency. Near the wire, the local temperature reaches up to 1,800 K, enabling ultrafast ammonia decomposition with rate constants much higher than those of leading catalysts under typical reaction conditions. Concurrently, the sharp temperature decrease along the radial direction allows for low power input, thus enhancing energy efficiency. The lightbulb reactor also realized up to 99.995% conversion at enhanced power input without the use of additional separation steps. We further propose a scaled-up reactor design that is two to three orders of magnitude smaller than current state-of-the-art reactors and highlight its potential applications within the emerging hydrogen economy. This study reports on a modular and scalable tungsten wire lightbulb reactor that achieves ultrafast ammonia decomposition by electrifying a tungsten wire to extremely high temperatures, increasing productivity without diminishing energy efficiency.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00297-5
Mo Qiao
{"title":"In charge of selectivity","authors":"Mo Qiao","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00297-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00297-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 10","pages":"620-620"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145341946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00282-y
Todd M. Squires
Todd Squires highlights the distinction between weight and volume fraction as a conceptual strategy to control the flow and feel of complex fluid products.
{"title":"Helping ingredients punch above their weight fraction","authors":"Todd M. Squires","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00282-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00282-y","url":null,"abstract":"Todd Squires highlights the distinction between weight and volume fraction as a conceptual strategy to control the flow and feel of complex fluid products.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 10","pages":"663-663"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145341948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00296-6
Alessio Lavino
{"title":"A robot walks in high dimensions","authors":"Alessio Lavino","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00296-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00296-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 10","pages":"619-619"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145341943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00284-w
Qijun Pei, Ping Chen
Ammonia is a promising hydrogen carrier, but hydrogen production via ammonia decomposition presents kinetic challenges. Now, a high-temperature tungsten wire lightbulb reactor is demonstrated as an energy-efficient solution for ammonia decomposition.
{"title":"A lightbulb moment for ammonia decomposition","authors":"Qijun Pei, Ping Chen","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00284-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00284-w","url":null,"abstract":"Ammonia is a promising hydrogen carrier, but hydrogen production via ammonia decomposition presents kinetic challenges. Now, a high-temperature tungsten wire lightbulb reactor is demonstrated as an energy-efficient solution for ammonia decomposition.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 10","pages":"623-624"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145341938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-17DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00291-x
Nicholas A. Jose, Alexei A. Lapkin
Precision nanomaterials are key to many technologies; however, effective industrial-scale production typically requires decades of development. Here we share the commercialization pathway of our Accelerated Materials Platform for Engineered Nanomaterials (AMPLE), which integrates microreactors, machine learning and automation to accelerate materials synthesis from gram to tonne scales.
{"title":"A roadmap toward closed-loop autonomous experimentation for engineered nanomaterials","authors":"Nicholas A. Jose, Alexei A. Lapkin","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00291-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00291-x","url":null,"abstract":"Precision nanomaterials are key to many technologies; however, effective industrial-scale production typically requires decades of development. Here we share the commercialization pathway of our Accelerated Materials Platform for Engineered Nanomaterials (AMPLE), which integrates microreactors, machine learning and automation to accelerate materials synthesis from gram to tonne scales.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 10","pages":"615-617"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145341936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-17DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00292-w
Commercialization is a key milestone in chemical process design and product development. In this Editorial, we emphasize the importance of incorporating industrial expertise and introduce a new article format to support this aim: Down to Business.
商业化是化工工艺设计和产品开发的重要里程碑。在这篇社论中，我们强调了整合行业专业知识的重要性，并引入了一种新的文章格式来支持这一目标：Down to Business。
{"title":"Building industry connections","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00292-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00292-w","url":null,"abstract":"Commercialization is a key milestone in chemical process design and product development. In this Editorial, we emphasize the importance of incorporating industrial expertise and introduce a new article format to support this aim: Down to Business.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 10","pages":"609-609"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-025-00292-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145341947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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