Figure 2: A reversible structural change associated with methanol desorption. Figure 3: The effect of water binding on the structure and size of uncapped ZnS nanoparticles in methanol. Although a ...

A team has now succeeded in gaining insights into the structure of its active site. Methanol is one of the most important basic chemicals used, for example, to produce plastics or building materials.

Methanol is the simplest alcohol, explains Virginia Tech chemistry professor James McGrath. When used as fuel, it is diluted with water. In the fuel cell, the methanol-water molecule is stripped ...

The research teams have jointly studied a particular model system (7-hydroxyquinoline in water/methanol mixtures), where an ultrashort laser pulse triggers the deprotonation of an OH-group and the ...