Kraton Polymers LLC Appoints Karen A. Twitchell to Its Board of Directors

Wacker Chemical Corporation under new management

Nadja Håkansson appointed Chief Executive Officer of thyssenkrupp Uhde

New CEO at the GUS Group

Thorsten Schlechtriem takes the helm

Chemours Announces Appointment of Denise Dignam as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company

Change at the top of ALTANA’s Supervisory Board

Association of Chemists Honors Young Researcher from LIKAT

Power-to-X company Electrochaea appoints new CFO and new CCO

Otto Roelen Medal for Lutz Ackermann

The prize honours outstanding scientific achievements in the field of catalysis, which also have a strong industrial relevance

Management change at the top of the hubergroup

AkzoNobel’s Supervisory Board member, Jolanda Poots-Bijl, to step down

“Observing active matter is like playing computers under a microscope”

Juliane Simmchen receives Mario Markus Prize for ludic sciences

New shareholder structure at Bodo Möller Chemie

Korinna Möller-Boxberger and Frank Haug lead cross-generational family enterprise

LANXESS reshuffles management positions in four business units

New impetus for the Consumer Protection segment

Seita Hagihara Takes Over as President of Yokogawa Europe

Management changes at BASF

Markus Kamieth to succeed Martin Brudermüller as Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors in 2024

Tobias Erb receives the Leibniz Award 2024

Innovative, interdisciplinary research approach opens up new possibilities for developing technologies to address the global climate crisis

Leibniz Prize for chemist Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner

Germany's most important research funding prize goes to scientist at the University of Giessen

Making better use of residual gases

Award for invention for environmentally friendly adsorption of chlorine

Produce more and more efficient ammonia

The Meyer-Galow Award for Business Chemistry 2023 goes to Dennis Lippmann

Changes in the management of Hermann Waldner GmbH & Co. KG

New management structure

Nadja Håkansson appointed Chief Executive Officer of thyssenkrupp Uhde

Researchers create new chemical compound to solve 120-year-old problem

Accessing these molecules can have major impacts on agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and electronics

Research team develops sodium battery capable of rapid charging in just a few seconds

Breakthrough in overcoming the current limitations of energy storage systems

“Restore trust and get Bayer on track for better performance”

Three-year process of rejuvenation launched

Toxic chemicals can be detected with new AI method

The number of animal experiments could be reduced, as well as the economic costs when developing new chemicals

An AI leap into chemical synthesis

AI navigates and performs chemical research tasks with unprecedented efficiency

Novel hydrogel removes microplastics from water

The material has a unique intertwined polymer network that can bind the contaminants and degrade them using UV light irradiation

Longer-lasting and more sustainable green hydrogen production

The findings impact the ability to achieve a lasting and sustainable hydrogen-based energy economy

BASF has started prototype metal refinery for battery recycling

Innovative technology extracts lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and battery production scrap

Scientists convert chicken fat into energy storage devices

Cost-effective method for converting waste chicken fat into electrically conductive nanostructures

Safer alternative for an explosive reaction

The chemical industry has been using a reaction with explosive chemicals for over 100 years - now scientists have discovered a safer alternative

Chemists pioneer work to reduce carbon emissions

“My team and I have been hard at work trying to find more sustainable ways to separate, purify and trap ethylene..."

New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

Reducing health damage caused by alcohol

Children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers should avoid Brazil nuts

Brazil nuts can contain unusually high levels of radioactive radium

Toxic chemicals can be detected with new AI method

The number of animal experiments could be reduced, as well as the economic costs when developing new chemicals

Unfavourable carbohydrates early in the morning - a potential problem for "owls"

"Larks" and "owls" react differently to carbohydrate-rich meals

New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

Bruker to acquire the NanoString business in an asset deal

Intermittent fasting protects against liver inflammation and liver cancer

Drug partially mimics fasting effects

Map of feelings of happiness

Finally back in the ice cream parlor! Researchers have now discovered how our brain guides us to such "reward places".

Novel UV Broadband Spectrometer Revolutionises Air Pollutant Analysis

The laser-based technology developed at TU Graz enables the continual real-time analysis of air pollutants and their interaction with other gases and sunlight

Innovative treatment helmet from a Basel spin-off promises advances in the treatment of Alzheimer’s

There is a huge market for the treatment of patients with degenerative brain diseases

Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to adolescent brains

Rats that were fed a diet chock-full of fat and sugar in their adolescence suffered memory impairment, USC researchers found

analytica 2024 confirms its position as the world’s leading trade fair for the laboratory sector

Focus on digitalization and sustainability in the lab of the future

How a “date” between immune cells makes rheumatism disappear

Major success: New approach for treating autoimmune diseases

Asahi Brands relies on Warsteiner

Focus of cooperation on efficiency and sustainability

Scientists accelerate spectroscopic analysis

"This innovation expands the application of compressed sensing to real-time spectroscopic measurement"

Breakthrough in research on brown fat

Hope for strategies that support weight loss: Researchers from Denmark and Germany have found brown fat’s “off-switch"

Krombacher Brewery launches three unusual beer mix drinks with party liqueur Berliner Luft

Electrified bacteria: Method developed for faster determination of antibiotic resistance

"The results are available to us after just five to ten hours"

Microbe of the Year 2023: Bacillus subtilis – for health and technology

Already, Bacillus subtilis is indispensable in many industries, and many more innovations are expected

Opening a window to the food industry’s future: the world’s first factory growing food out of thin air launches

Discovery of the first fractal molecule in nature

‘We stumbled on this structure completely by accident and almost couldn’t believe what we saw when we first took images of it using an electron microscope’

New AI platform designs tomorrow’s cancer drugs

“A few years ago, AI was a dirty word in the pharmaceutical industry, but now the trend is definitely the opposite...”

Milk will continue to play an important role in our diet in the future

New insights into the genetics of the common octopus: genome at the chromosome level decoded

Scientific milestone provides deeper insights into the evolution and biology of Octopus vulgaris

With the Flick of a Switch: Shaping Cells with Light

The therapeutic potential of this research is immense

Why the BfR is shooting at gelatine or how the food safety of game meat can be guaranteed

Molecular dynamics in real time

A novel spectroscopic method allows ultrafast processes within molecules to be observed

AI designs new drugs based on protein structures

“It’s a real breakthrough for drug discovery”: Process ensures right from the start that the molecules can be chemically synthesised

E-tongue can detect white wine spoilage before humans can

Breakthrough technology to rapidly identify unknown molecules at scale

Start-up Isospec Analytics raises $1.9m