Clariant Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

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

Tests confirm quality of purified graphite from used lithium-ion batteries

Important step for the Circular Economy

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

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

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..."

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

BASF, SABIC, and Linde celebrate the start-up of the world's first large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnace

Technology with the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 90% compared to conventional steam crackers

The mother's protein intake affects the newborn's face

"The findings emphasize the importance of maintaining a well-balanced diet during pregnancy, with particular attention to protein intake"

Children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers should avoid Brazil nuts

Brazil nuts can contain unusually high levels of radioactive radium

Bruker to acquire the NanoString business in an asset deal

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

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

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

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

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’

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"

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

Newly sequenced genome reveals coffee’s prehistoric origin story — and its future under climate change

Study charts family history of Arabica, world’s most popular coffee species, through Earth’s heating and cooling periods over last millennia

Electrified bacteria: Method developed for faster determination of antibiotic resistance

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

With the Flick of a Switch: Shaping Cells with Light

The therapeutic potential of this research is immense

Did you know that parents should be careful with rice cakes?

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

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...”

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

Advanced imaging techniques on a semiconductor material reveal ‘surprising’ hidden activity

"This surprising and previously overlooked observation completely changes how we need to view this technology"

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

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

Innovative bioreactor research processes and cryotechnologies improve active ingredient tests using human cell cultures

This is paving the way for efficient real-world use of these cell cultures in toxicity testing and drug discovery

How your eye color affects your health

Iris color - a little noticed risk factor

Size of salty snack influences eating behavior that determines amount consumed

Study suggests pretzel size affects intake by governing how quickly a person eats and how big their bites are

The Big Quantum Chill: NIST Scientists Modify Common Lab Refrigerator to Cool Faster With Less Energy

The time and energy required to chill materials to temperatures near absolute zero has been dramatically reduced