Amino Acid Assists in Recycling Rechargeable Batteries

Environmentally friendly and efficient: recycling lithium-ion batteries in neutral solution

13-Mar-2025 - A new strategy for recycling spent lithium-ion batteries is based on a hydrometallurgical process in neutral solution. This allows for the extraction of lithium and other valuable metals in an environmentally friendly, highly efficient, and inexpensive way, as a Chinese research team reports in ...

Electronic quantum dance in molecules

Scientists watch moving charge density in real-time

08-Jun-2022 - An international research team led by DESY scientist Tim Laarmann has for the first time been able to monitor the quantum mechanically evolving electron charge distribution in glycine molecules via direct real-time measurement. The results – obtained at DESY´s brilliant free-electron laser FLASH ...

Sustainable use of CO2 using a modified bacterium

13-Mar-2020 - A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm, led by Dr. Arren Bar-Even, has succeeded in reprogramming the diet of the bacterium E. coli in such a way that it can use formic acid or methanol as its sole source of nutrition. These simple organic ...

Squeezing low-cost electricity from sustainable biomaterial

05-Dec-2017 - Mobile phone speakers and motion detectors in cars and video games may soon be powered by electricity generated from low cost and sustainable biomaterials, according to research carried out at University of Limerick (UL), Ireland. Scientists at UL's Bernal Institute have discovered that the ...

Terahertz dance of amino acids

RUB chemists explain the fingerprint of dissolved glycine in the Terahertz range

01-Apr-2014 - Chemists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have, for the first time, completely analysed the fingerprint region of the Terahertz spectrum of a biologically relevant molecule in water, in this case, an amino acid. By combining spectroscopy and molecular-dynamics simulations, they rendered the ...

Evonik expands glycine capacity

Evonik is currently investing in a new plant in Nanning, China, to expand its specialty chemicals portfolio

23-Jun-2011 - Evonik Industries has increased its production capacity for the pharmaceutical amino acid glycine by 50 percent due to rising demand. This was achieved by efficiency gains in the production process. Evonik manufactures the amino acid at its Chinese Nanning site in accordance with the strict ...

Evonik offers Tessenderlo customers secure supply of glycine

16-Jul-2010 - Essen, Germany-based Evonik Industries has assumed ownership of the customer list for the pharmaceutical amino acid glycine of the Tessenderlo Group of Brussels (Belgium). By the end of the year, Tessenderlo will withdraw from the glycine business completely and close its own production plant in ...