Every five years the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem) becomes the pre-eminent forum for scientists from around the globe to discuss cutting-edge developments in all areas of chemistry. The theme for this year’s conference in Honolulu, Hawaii is Chemical Networking: Building Bridges Across the Pacific, with an emphasis on the collaborative nature […]

Every five years the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem) becomes the pre-eminent forum for scientists from around the globe to discuss cutting-edge developments in all areas of chemistry. The theme for this year’s conference in Honolulu, Hawaii is Chemical Networking: Building Bridges Across the Pacific, with an emphasis on the collaborative nature of chemistry as a multidisciplinary science and the aim to promote networking with pan-Pacific research groups. The Chemistry of Clean Energy Conversion, Storage, and Production sessions this year will showcase chemists and engineers tackling the world’s energy issues through myriad approaches. The symposia will cover everything from carbon dioxide utilization, heterogeneous catalysts for bio-refining and light harvesting surfaces to microwave green chemistry, fuel cells, hydrogen storage and water splitting, among many others. In this context, we are proud to highlight the groundbreaking work of ACS Publications authors who will be speakers in the sessions. These scientists are pushing boundaries, in order to address the challenges of clean energy conversion, storage and production.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Double-Layer Ionomer Membrane for Improving Fuel Cell Performance
Takashi Mochizuki, Makoto Uchida, Hiroyuki Uchida, Masahiro Watanabe, and Kenji Miyatake
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2014 6 (16), 13894-13899
ACS Catalysis
Influence of Charge on the Reactivity of Supported Heterogeneous Transition Metal Catalysts
Liang Huang, Bo Han, Yongjie Xi, Robert C. Forrey, and Hansong Cheng
ACS Catalysis 2015 5 (8), 4592-4597
Mechanistic Insights into the Reduction of CO2 on Tin Electrodes using in Situ ATR-IR Spectroscopy
Maor F. Baruch, James E. Pander, III, James L. White, and Andrew B. Bocarsly
ACS Catalysis 2015 5 (5), 3148-3156
Thermodynamically Leveraged Tandem Catalysis for Ester RC(O)O–R′ Bond Hydrogenolysis. Scope and Mechanism
Tracy L. Lohr, Zhi Li, Rajeev S. Assary, Larry A. Curtiss, and Tobin J. Marks
ACS Catalysis 2015 5 (6), 3675-3679
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Highly Efficient and Selective Transformations of Glycerol Using Reusable Heterogeneous Catalysts
Tomoo Mizugaki, Racha Arundhathi, Takato Mitsudome, Koichiro Jitsukawa, and Kiyotomi Kaneda
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2014 2 (4), 574-578
Ecofriendly Synthesis of Ceria Foam via Carboxymethylcellulose Gelation: Application for the Epoxidation of Chalcone
H. R. Ramananarivo, H. Maati, O. Amadine, K. Abdelouahdi, A. Barakat, D. Ihiawakrim, O. Ersen, Rajender S. Varma, and A. Solhy
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2015 3 (11), 2786-2795
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00662
Energy & Fuels
Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry Characterization of Treated Athabasca Oil Sands Processed Waters
John V. Headley, Pardeep Kumar, Ajay Dalai, Kerry M. Peru, Jon Bailey, Dena W. McMartin, Steven M. Rowland, Ryan P. Rodgers, and Alan G. Marshall
Energy & Fuels 2015 29 (5), 2768-2773
Real-Time Monitoring of the Transesterification of Soybean Oil and Methanol by Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Feng Zhang, Daisuke Adachi, Sriappareddy Tamalampudi, Akihiko Kondo, and Keisuke Tominaga
Energy & Fuels 2013 27 (10), 5957-5961
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Steam Hydrolysis of Poly(bisphenol A carbonate) in a Fluidized Bed Reactor
Guido Grause, Rikard Kärrbrant, Tomohito Kameda, and Toshiaki Yoshioka
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2014 53 (11), 4215-4223
Inorganic Chemistry
Hydricity of an Fe–H Species and Catalytic CO2 Hydrogenation
Henry Fong and Jonas C. Peters
Inorganic Chemistry 2015 54 (11), 5124-5135
Toward Solar-Driven Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using Water as an Electron Donor
Shunsuke Sato, Takeo Arai, and Takeshi Morikawa
Inorganic Chemistry 2015 54 (11), 5105-5113
Efficient Photocatalysts for CO2 Reduction
Go Sahara and Osamu Ishitani
Inorganic Chemistry 2015 54 (11), 5096-5104
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Bis-BN Cyclohexane: A Remarkably Kinetically Stable Chemical Hydrogen Storage Material
Gang Chen, Lev N. Zakharov, Mark E. Bowden, Abhijeet J. Karkamkar, Sean M. Whittemore, Edward B. Garner, III, Tanya C. Mikulas, David A. Dixon, Tom Autrey, and Shih-Yuan Liu
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015 137 (1), 134-137
Unusual Stability of Acetonitrile-Based Superconcentrated Electrolytes for Fast-Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries
Yuki Yamada, Keizo Furukawa, Keitaro Sodeyama, Keisuke Kikuchi, Makoto Yaegashi, Yoshitaka Tateyama, and Atsuo Yamada
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014 136 (13), 5039-5046
A Half-Reaction Alternative to Water Oxidation: Chloride Oxidation to Chlorine Catalyzed by Silver Ion
Jialei Du, Zuofeng Chen, Chuncheng Chen, and Thomas J. Meyer
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015 137 (9), 3193-3196