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New Catalyst Converts Biomass into Fuel Sources with Remarkably High Efficiency

A new catalyst designed by a research team changes biomass into fuel sources with exceptionally high efficiency and provides new opportunities for producing next-generation renewable materials.

17 Dec 2019

Pathways Toward Post-Petrochemistry

Ethylene, or ethene, is a primary feedstock for the chemical industry, including as a starting material for the production of a wide variety of plastics.

13 Dec 2019

Bitrez Ltd Joins EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub as Industrial Partner

Bitrez Ltd, Europe’s leading manufacturer of specialist polymers and chemicals, has become an industrial partner of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub (CIMComp).

From Bitrez Ltd 12 Dec 2019

Researchers Create Catalyst that Switches Between its Chiral Forms

A number of organic molecules are found to be chiral, implying that they cannot be superimposed on their mirror image.

9 Dec 2019

Showa Denko to License Vinyl Acetate Monomer Technology to Shenghong Refining Petrochemical, China

Showa Denko has decided to license its technology to produce vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) to Shenghong Refining Petrochemical (Lian Yun Gang) Co., Ltd., China, under a formal alliance agreement between SDK and KBR, a global engineering and technology solutions company based in the U.S..

From Showa Denko KK 20 Nov 2019

New Artificial System Maps the Self-Assembly Pathway of Two Types of Molecules

A pair of pathways diverged in a chemical synthesis is taken up by a single molecule. At the University of Tokyo, chemists have explored how an ultrathin sheet or a spherical cage is formed by molecular building blocks.

18 Nov 2019

Bulk Defective Vanadium Oxide Effective at Removing NOx at Lower Temperatures

A low-temperature catalyst for eliminating NOx gas from industrial exhaust using ammonia has been created by researchers at the Tokyo Metropolitan University.

18 Nov 2019

New Platinum-Nickel Catalyst Can Store More Electrical Energy

Catalysts are known to speed up chemical reactions, but the extensively used metal platinum is not only rare but also costly.

15 Nov 2019

New Approach to Improve the Long-Term Stability of Solar Perovskite Materials

According to researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), expanding the list of organic ingredients comprising perovskite solar materials can possibly improve their performance and long-term stability.

11 Nov 2019

Strain-Induced Isomerisation of Molecular Chains

NUS scientists have demonstrated a strain-induced structural rearrangement of one-dimensional (1D) metal-organic molecular chains for potential use in fabricating functional nanostructures.

11 Nov 2019

Chemistry News

New Catalyst Converts Biomass into Fuel Sources with Remarkably High Efficiency

Pathways Toward Post-Petrochemistry

Bitrez Ltd Joins EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub as Industrial Partner

Researchers Create Catalyst that Switches Between its Chiral Forms

Showa Denko to License Vinyl Acetate Monomer Technology to Shenghong Refining Petrochemical, China

New Artificial System Maps the Self-Assembly Pathway of Two Types of Molecules

Bulk Defective Vanadium Oxide Effective at Removing NOx at Lower Temperatures

New Platinum-Nickel Catalyst Can Store More Electrical Energy

New Approach to Improve the Long-Term Stability of Solar Perovskite Materials

Strain-Induced Isomerisation of Molecular Chains

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