15-11-2011

Physicists of the Double Chooz experiment detected a short-range disappearance of electron antineutrinos. They presented this result on Wednesday 9 November 2011 at the LowNu conference in Seoul, Korea. It helps determine the so-far unknown third neutrino mixing angle which is a fundamental ...

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04-03-2010

With its long-standing experience in the processing of vegetable raw materials, Arkema now partners the EuroBioRef (European Multilevel Integrated Biorefinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing) and BIOCORE (Biocommodity Refinery) projects. Both programs are receiving funding as part ...

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22-02-2010

Deinove announced the appointment of Paul Joël Derian (Vice President R&D and Executive Committee Board member at Rhodia) to the company's Board of Directors. Paul Joël Derian has solid experience of the chemicals industry in France and internationally notably through a series of senior ...

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French chemists have created a multi-functional organometallic switch which can be triggered using either light or electric potential

10-11-2008

Stéphane Rigaut, Corinne Lagrost, Karine Costuas and colleagues from CNRS-University of Rennes have prepared a photo/electrochromic multifunctional switching system, based on Irie's dithienylethene photochromic unit ([Cl(dppe)2Ru]+ where dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane). The switch is ...

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