Porous materials can separate carbon dioxide from industrial gases, purify fuels and extract valuable chemicals from complex mixtures. 

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, RBI, are the first to show that an important photochemical reaction can be carried out efficiently in a ball mill, a closed vessel in which powdered substances are continuously mixed and ground by the impact of a milling ball. 

Mechanochemistry, which drives chemical reactions by mechanical force, is increasingly used in materials synthesis and in sustainable “green” chemistry. It is carried out in an apparently simple way, by ball milling. Yet the most important part, what happens at the very moment when the balls collide with the particles, has remained beyond the reach of direct observation. A new study by an international team from the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg now provides an answer to that question, at the molecular level.

RBI awarded L. Vujević, B. Karadeniz, D. Žilić, K. Užarević and Marina Kveder for the article  Chemical Science 2023, 14 (35), 9389–9399 as one of the best RBI articles published in 2023.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/sc/d3sc03089j

RBI awarded S. Muratović, V. Martinez, B. Karadeniz, I. Brekalo, D. Žilić and K. Užarević for the article Inorg Chem 2022, 61, 45, 18181–18192, as one of the best RBI articles published in 2022.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02898

On Sunday, November 26, 2023, Prof. Dr. Sc. Marina Ilakovac Kveder passed away after a short, serious illness. The silent farewell took place on Friday, December 1, 2023.

New fundamental results of the research of mechanochemical processes that pave the way to their faster application in the chemical industry.

We recently made a breakthrough in modelling the mechanism of the production of hydrogen gas in the water-gas shift reaction (WGSR).

The researchers form the RBI Laboratory for Green Synthesis in collaboration with their colleagues from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry in Zagreb published a 'Hot Paper’ in the renowned scientific journal Chemistry-A European Journal (IF = 5.16).