Flower power: lavender oil for longer-lasting sodium-sulfur batteries

Nano-cages made of linalool and sulfur increase the service life and storage capacity of sodium-sulfur batteries

03-Feb-2025 - Lavender oil could help solve a problem in the energy transition. A team from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has created a material from linalool, the main component of lavender oil, and sulfur that could make sodium-sulfur batteries more durable and powerful. Such batteries ...

Flower Power: Lavender Oil Fuels Batteries for the Future

Unique material created to solve a persistent failure problem

21-Oct-2024 - A groundbreaking sodium-sulfur battery with improved energy performance and longer lifespan? The secret ingredient grows in our gardens: lavender. By combining lavender oil with sulfur, Dr. Paolo Giusto's team has created a unique material that solves a persistent failure problem – polysulfide ...

BASF to invest in its aroma ingredients business by expanding its global production footprint with new plants in China and Germany

08-Mar-2023 - BASF announced its investment in a new citral plant as part of its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China, and menthol and linalool downstream plants at its Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. These plants are expected to come on stream from 2026 onwards. The investment is driven by a growing demand ...

Tobacco constituent extraction from snus during consumer use

03-Apr-2013 - Scientists at British American Tobacco have used a multi-analyte approach to determine the level of exposure to tobacco constituents of snus users. The results show that, generally, less than a third of each constituent measured was extracted by consumers during use. Snus is a moist snuff that is ...