Researchers from King's College London and Trinity College Dublin have developed a new aluminium-based compound that could potentially reduce the world’s dependence on expensive rare metals such as platinum and palladium.
The newly developed compound, known as cyclotrialumane, has demonstrated the ability to break strong chemical bonds, something that has traditionally been possible mainly using precious metals. The findings were recently published in the scientific journal Nature Communications and are already being described as a significant development in industrial chemistry and catalyst research.
