The currently used nickel oxide, is not very efficient, toxic and
requires organic solvents to work in the cell.
The vast majority of organic reactions today
require organic solvents, many of which are environmentally hazardous and costly to dispose of.
Not exact matches
But the process still
required dangerous
organic solvents, and recovering the reaction products from the mix of
solvent and catalyst
required turning up the heat to distill the
solvent, a treatment that could destroy the catalyst.
«It eliminates
organic solvents from the reaction medium,
requires little to no energy input — and now, it reduces the cost and extends the lifetime of an endangered precious metal, palladium.»
As insufficient
solvent causes the graphene layers to reattach themselves back into graphite, yielding one kilogram of graphene currently
requires at least one tonne of
organic solvent, making the method costly and environmentally unfriendly.
Removal of
organic solvents and purification processes are also
required.
The albumin - formulation eliminated the need for an
organic solvent —
required for delivery of free paclitaxel — thus eliminating
solvent - related side effects.
I love that it doesn't
require electricity, it uses fluoride filters, and it removes herbicides, pesticides, VOCs,
organic solvents.
The limitation with previous dye sensitized solar cells is they
required a volatile
organic solvent as the electrolyte.