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Oxford University Spin-Out Floats on AIM for 65 Million Pounds

Oxford University spin-out company Oxford Catalysts Group plc floated today on AIM valued at £65 million. The company, which develops speciality catalysts for generating clean energy from fossil fuels and certain r...

27 Apr 2006

Huntsman Forms Green Chemistry Strategic Business Unit

Huntsman Corporation has announced that it has formed a new strategic business unit dedicated to the enhancement of the Company’s Green Chemistry initiatives. “Given the universal definition that Green Che...

18 Apr 2006

Chemists Create Molecules Thought to Exist Only in Interstellar Space

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a type of molecules thought to exist only in interstellar space, which may have valuable applications in chemical industry. The findi...

14 Apr 2006

Making Alternative Fuel Becomes More Efficient with Two-Step Chemical Process

As the United States’ oil reserves dwindle, some say the nation will have to rely on synthetic petroleum fuel made from its large stores of coal. A two-step chemical process augments a method of making cleaner-b...

14 Apr 2006

Thermal Production and Reactions of Organic Ions at Atmospheric Pressure

Purdue University researchers have developed a relatively simple alternative to sophisticated techniques now used to ionize materials, a critical step needed for chemical analyses involving instruments called mass spectr...

14 Apr 2006

Flat Light Source Invented

Scientists studying organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have made a critical leap from single-color displays to a highly efficient and long-lived natural light source. The invention, described in the April 13 issu...

13 Apr 2006

Malvern Instruments has Donated a Zetasizer Nano Particle Characterization System to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Malvern Instruments has donated a Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to support graduate and undergraduate Chemistry studies being carried out in the Department of Chemi...

13 Apr 2006

New Materials Set for Use in Selective Pollution Detection and Environmental Cleanup

A new Schiff base nickel complex material as modifier for selective electrodes A series of new materials are providing the opportunity to design new detection systems selective to specific metallic ions. These materia...

6 Apr 2006

Sandia Aim to Optimize Coal Combustion to Produce the Most Energy and the Least Possible Pollution

Sandia National Laboratories researchers here are studying the burning characteristics of coal to prepare the way for the coming of a hydrogen economy. That’s because while there are many long-term options for p...

5 Apr 2006

TMP and BASF Announce Joint Development Agreement for Copper and Barrier CMP-Slurries

TMP and BASF have announced that they have entered into a license and joint development agreement for copper and barrier CMP-slurries (CMP, Chemical Mechanical Planarization). This agreement will leverage TMP’s lea...

4 Apr 2006

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