19-06-2013

Waste from textile and paint industries often contains organic dyes such as methylene blue as pollutants. Photocatalysis is an efficient means of reducing such pollution, and molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) catalyzes this degradation. Researchers from Bangalore, India, led by C. N. R. Rao now ...

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19-06-2013

Oxea will increase list and off-list prices on the product below effective July 1, 2013, or as contracts allow. Product Europe North America South America / Asia EUR/mt USD/lb USD/mt n-Octylamine 400 0.25 550

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RUB researchers unmask Janus-faced nature of mechanical forces with the Jülich supercomputer

19-06-2013

The harder you pull, the quicker it goes. At least, that used to be the rule in mechanochemistry, a method that researchers apply to set chemical reactions in motion by means of mechanical forces. However, as chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx, Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at the ...

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Platinum-nickel nano-octahedra save 90 % platinum

19-06-2013

Efficient, robust and economic catalyst materials hold the key to achieving a breakthrough in fuel cell technology. Scientists from Jülich and Berlin have developed a material for converting hydrogen and oxygen to water using a tenth of the typical amount of platinum that was previously ...

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Analytik Jena opens company museum

19-06-2013

Analytik Jena AG's company museum presents the history of analytical measuring technology in Jena to visitors, customers, business partners and interested guests over 70 square meters, and showcases the continuation of instrument development at Analytik Jena up to the present day. More than ...

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Award ceremony at the Government building, the House of the Provincial Authority in Limburg

18-06-2013

16 year-old Han Mertens from Malden in the Netherlands, a student at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Nijmegen, has won the 34th National Chemistry Olympiad (NCO), ahead of around 4000 other participants. Three other competitors also shared in the prizes: Ronen Brilleslijper (JSG. Maimonides, ...

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18-06-2013

Oxea will increase off-list prices on the following products effective July 1, 2013, or as contracts allow: Product North America USD/lb Europe EUR/mt ROW* USD/mt Neopentyl Glycol (NPG) $0.03 Trimethylolpropane (TMP) $0.03 1,3 Butylene Glycol (1,3 ...

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18-06-2013

Researchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois, evaluating the biomass potential of woody crops, are taking a closer look at the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), which showed a higher yield and a faster harvest time than other woody plant species that they ...

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18-06-2013

The IEA, ICCA and DECHEMA jointly released today their new roadmap that explores how the chemical industry can further amplify catalysis and other related technology advances to boost energy efficiency in its production processes. Entitled Technology Roadmap: Energy and GHG Reductions in the ...

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18-06-2013

Research reports the discovery of the first microorganism that anaerobically degrades plant biomass, without the need for chemical pre-treatment, to produce raw materials that can be converted to biofuels. Scientists in the United States demonstrated that Caldicellulosiruptor bescii bacterium ...

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