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Kaida Catalyst, a leading domestic precious metal catalyst company, has officially released its 2025 annual performance report. The data shows that the company achieved a net profit of RMB 25.78 million in 2025, representing a year-on-year increase of 26.82%. Against the backdrop of overall pressure on the chemical industry, the company managed to achieve a remarkable turnaround, driven by its advantages in domestic substitution and technological barriers within the high-end precious metal catal

Sinochem Group has officially released an industry white paper summarizing the achievements of China's chemical catalyst sector in its green transformation over the past five months. The white paper emphasizes that non-toxic, non-hazardous, recyclable, and highly atom-economical green catalysts have become the absolute mainstay of industry investment. It also proposes, for the first time, a draft industry standard for carbon footprint accounting covering the entire lifecycle of catalysts.

Against the backdrop of the global green and low-carbon transition, electrocatalytic synthesis technology, which utilizes renewable electricity to drive chemical reactions, offers a highly promising pathway for the direct synthesis of chemicals under mild conditions. The journal Science & Technology Review invited Wang Xinzhi, Li Cunpu, and Wei Zidong from Chongqing University to contribute an article reviewing the significant advances in the field of electrocatalytic synthesis. The article high

The joint research team constructed a special rare-earth oxide nanoscale "protective shield" on the surface of a platinum-based catalyst. This innovative structure precisely protects the core active sites at the catalytic interface, enabling continuous and stable operation for over 1,000 hours in the methanol–water reforming hydrogen production reaction, with a turnover number exceeding 15 million. This breakthrough has removed a key barrier to the large-scale production of low-cost green hydrog

The chemistry department team at Tsinghua University has developed a universal thermal shock synthesis process, successfully scaling up the preparation of single-atom catalysts from milligram-level laboratory batches to kilogram-level mass production. These catalysts have demonstrated near 100% atom utilization efficiency in fine chemical hydrogenation reactions, significantly reducing the cost of precious metal usage.

On January 7, 2026, Xiamen Jiaqing Hydrogen Technology Co., Ltd. (a national high-tech enterprise incubated by Jiageng Innovation Laboratory) announced the successful commissioning and stable operation of the world's first 10,000-ton-level single-atom catalytic fixed-bed continuous hydrogenation unit for the synthesis of specialty amine materials. This technology has addressed the industry pain points in specialty amine material synthesis, with significant core advantages: ① Catalyst costs reduc

Nankai University's new energy materials team has proposed a "catalysis-promoted conduction" mechanism at the electrolyte-electrode interface in solid-state batteries and developed a unique interfacial catalyst. This material effectively reduces the interfacial transport impedance of lithium ions and suppresses the growth of lithium dendrites, enabling all-solid-state lithium batteries to achieve a cycle life exceeding 2,000 cycles at room temperature, thereby accelerating the commercialization

A research team led by Professor Shi Jianwen from the School of Electrical Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University has successfully developed a bifunctional electrocatalyst for seawater electrolysis. The study breaks through the bottleneck of balancing activity and stability in seawater electrolysis catalysts, elucidates the regulatory mechanism of interfacial bonding, and provides new insights for the development of efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts in complex electrolyte environments. T

With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, the energy crisis and environmental pollution caused by increasing energy consumption and pollutant emissions have become urgent issues to be addressed.

On December 31, 2025, the industrialization production line for the efficient separation and extraction of platinum group metals from carbonyl tailings, developed by Jinchuan Group Copper and Precious Metals Co., Ltd., was officially completed and put into operation. This production line is China's first fully automated, large-scale, and full-process recovery and purification line for platinum group metals from carbonyl tailings. It has overcome the key technical challenges of efficient separati