While the world's best athletes competed during last month's winter Olympics, doctors and scientists were waging a different battle behind the scenes to make sure no one had an unfair advantage from banned performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Now, for the first time, researchers have unveiled a new weapon — a test for doping compounds that is a thousand times more sensitive than those used today.
Addivant today announced the completion of the first phase of capacity expansions at Gulf Stabilizers Industries (GSI), the company’s joint venture in Al Jubaïl, Saudi Arabia. Once completed, the production capacity of hindered phenolic antioxidants, ANOX® 20 and ANOX® PP18 and, phosphite antioxidant ALKANOX® 240 will double to 10,500 metric tons.
Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised a greatly improved technique for making amino acids not found in nature. These “unnatural” amino acids traditionally have been very difficult to synthesize, but are sought after by the pharmaceutical industry for their potential medical uses.
Air Products, a global leading supplier of industrial gases, performance materials, equipment and technology solutions, recently received a nearly 50-member delegation comprised of representatives from China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association (CNFIA) in its Asia Technology Center located in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park. The company and the delegation also held an “innovation-driven” conference to exchange nitrogen fertilizer industry knowledge and experiences.
Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, has relocated its Middle East representative office to Dubai.
BASF has established the research initiative “Network for Advanced Materials Open Research” (NAO) together with seven leading universities and research institutes in China, Japan and South Korea. The scientists aim to cooperate in developing new materials for a wide range of applications.
Dutch chemist Dr Evan Spruijt won this year's Dream Chemistry Award. The members of the Award's Scientific Committee have in this way expressed their appreciation for a visionary project of creating artificial cells – microdroplets of water capable of autonomous growth and division. Creation of such cells in the laboratory would be an important step towards a deep understanding of physical and chemical foundations of life.
University of Utah chemists discovered how vibrations in chemical bonds can be used to predict chemical reactions and thus design better catalysts to speed reactions that make medicines, industrial products and new materials.
At the Ulmer BetonTage 2014 trade fair in Neu-Ulm, Germany, BASF was honored for the concrete hardener Master X-Seed® 120 in the concrete technology category. “It is a great honor, as this award demonstrates that we have developed an innovative product enabling new business opportunities to our customers,” said Herwig Heegewaldt, responsible at BASF for the concrete additive business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
BASF SE today inaugurated a new global Research and Development (R&D) Center at its Thane site in Navi Mumbai, India, focusing on organic synthesis, advanced process and formulation research, discovery chemistry for modern agricultural solutions, and molecular modelling. With an initial investment of €2 million, this new facility has been set up by BASF under its group Company, BASF Chemicals India Pvt Ltd. The new R&D facilities will accommodate more than 60 scientists in the first phase.
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