Examining silver nanoparticles in natural environments

28-Feb-2019 - Thanks to their antibacterial properties, the particles are used in many products. Their effect on the environment is largely unexplored. This is mainly due to the lack of suitable analytical methods. Researchers from the Resolv Cluster of Excellence at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a ...

How power-to-gas technology can be green and profitable

Economists map out economically viable path to renewables-based hydrogen production

28-Feb-2019 - Hydrogen production based on wind power can already be commercially viable today. Until now, it was generally assumed that this environmentally friendly power-to-gas technology could not be implemented profitably. Economists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of Mannheim ...

LANXESS announces capacity expansion for corrosion inhibitor products

28-Feb-2019 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has successfully completed a debottlenecking project resulting in a 15 percent increase in global production capacity of its Additin RC 4000 series of corrosion inhibition additives. The additional capacities are a result of process synergies identified and ...

3rd European Chemistry Partnering: Over 100 Pitches from Start-ups to large enterprises

Over 800 Participants from 40 Countries in 2,000 Meetings

27-Feb-2019 - Six times as many decision-makers attended the 3rd European Chemistry Partnering - compared to the initial event two years ago: with participants from Brazil, Morocco and Australia, all six continents were represented for the first time. More than 2,000 partnering meetings formed the basis of ...

A new spin in nano-electronics

Researchers succeed in controlling extremely short-wavelength spin waves

27-Feb-2019 - In recent years, electronic data processing has been evolving in one direction only: The industry has downsized its components to the nanometer range. But this process is now reaching its physical limits. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are therefore exploring spin ...

New technology for warm white LEDs

27-Feb-2019 - Light emitting diodes (LEDs) provide significant energy savings over conventional light sources. In terms of light quality, however, conventional lighting solutions are still superior to LEDs as the latter are unable to reproduce the entire color spectrum. Most importantly, LEDs lack an efficient ...

Criteria for the Addition of Superheavy Chemical Elements to the Periodic Table

27-Feb-2019 - When exactly does a newly created element really exist? What requirements must be fulfilled for its measurement to be recognized and for the element to be added to the periodic table of chemical elements? And in the case of several claims, to whom is the discovery attributed, and thus the right ...

Water is more homogeneous than expected

22-Feb-2019 - In order to explain the known anomalies in water, some researchers assume that water consists of a mixture of two phases even under ambient conditions. However, new X-ray spectroscopic analyses at BESSY II, ESRF and Swiss Light Source show that this is not the case. At room temperature and normal ...

Thomas Heydler appointed to the Supervisory Board of Eppendorf AG

22-Feb-2019 - Thomas Heydler has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Eppendorf AG since January 25, 2019. He succeeds Dr. Michael Schroeder, who resigned for personal reasons. "With Thomas Heydler, we have succeeded in gaining another very experienced manager for the Eppendorf Supervisory Board. We are ...

Solid-state catalysis: Fluctuations clear the way

19-Feb-2019 - LMU chemists have identified a mechanism that allows molecules to diffuse rapidly on the already crowded surface of a solid-state catalyst – an important capability, especially for efficient catalysis under industrial conditions. The use of efficient catalytic agents is what makes many technical ...