Paul-Joël Derian, Rhodia Vice President, Research & Development, has received from François Loos, Minister Delegate for Industry in the French Government, the Pierre Potier Prize in the “Process&rdquo...
The soaring prices of oil and natural gas have sparked a race to make transportation fuels from plant matter instead of petroleum. Both biodiesel and gasoline containing ethanol are starting to make an impact on the mark...
The soaring prices of oil and natural gas have sparked a race to make transportation fuels from plant matter instead of petroleum. Both biodiesel and gasoline containing ethanol are starting to make an impact on the mark...
Sumitomo Chemical has announced that it has entered into an agreement to license its proprietary hydrochloric acid oxidation process to Mitsubishi Chemical. This highly efficient process takes hydrogen chloride co-pro...
An electric field as the driving force for a chemical reaction? Jean-Marie Lehn, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1987) and trailblazer in the field of supermolecular chemistry, and his co-worker Nicolas Giuseppon...
BP and The California Institute of Technology have teamed up in a multi-million dollar research program that could open the door to a radical new way of producing solar cells, making the cost of solar electricity more co...
Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have found that a rapid, environmentally friendly catalytic process involving Fe-TAML. activators and hydrogen peroxide breaks down...
Bioengineers at Tufts University have created a new fusion protein that for the first time combines the toughness of spider silk with the intricate structure of silica. The resulting nanocomposite could be used in medica...
The Periodic Table of elements is the basis of chemistry. Yet, it is known that the behaviour of the elements - and their chemical properties - change significantly under pressure. Normally inert platinum and xenon becom...
A new generation of tough, chip-resistant DuPont automotive refinish products, reinforced with newly invented bio-based polymers, could be available for use in auto collision repair centers by 2008. The new coatings will...