Lunar soil offers a promising catalyst

Soil samples gathered by China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft in late 2020 have been tested as catalysts for water splitting and carbon dioxide conversion. The team analysed the lunar samples and found that iron-, magnesium- and titanium-rich compounds present in the rocks could catalyse a number of processes. This article comes with a downloadable summary slide to give 14–16 students a new science context when studying catalysts.