17-Oct-2019

LyondellBasell announced that it is building a new small-scale pilot facility at its Ferrara, Italy site moving another step closer to converting post-consumer plastic waste into new plastics on a commercial scale. The company selected its Ferrara site for the pilot facility due to its long ...

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02-Oct-2019

Italmatch Chemicals announced that it has acquired Water Science Technologies (WST), a leading blender and chemical solutions provider for the North American oil & gas and industrial water treatment industries. The acquisition further strengthens Italmatch Chemicals leadership in the North ...

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03-Jul-2019

Even if we study them at school, oxidation numbers have so far eluded any rigorous quantum mechanical definition. A new SISSA study, published in Nature Physics, reverses this state of affairs by providing such a definition, based on the theory of topological quantum numbers, which was honoured ...

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28-Jun-2019

On June 18, 2019, the 48th HPLC Conference (University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy) played host to the debut of the Separation Science Slam, sponsored by KNAUER, Merck and The Analytical Scientist. Six scientists under the age of 35 were given the opportunity to present their scientific work ...

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15-Apr-2019

The Milanese chemical distributor EVS (Elettrochimica Valle Staffora S.p.a.) joined the Mönchengladbach-based OQEMA Group in April. The business lines of EVS cover the full organic and inorganic product ranges and in terms of specialities, EVS is a perfect complement to the OQEMA portfolio in the ...

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A repertoire as-yet-undiscovered molecular knots for future physico-chemical applications

06-Aug-2018

Consider a short piece of rope: could you guess which knots are more likely to form if you crumple and shake it? Synthetic chemists have long been working on a molecular version of this problem and, so far, have succeeded at synthesizing half a dozen different knots types using molecular ...

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Strategic step to support green technologies and chemistry

13-Jul-2018

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS will open a new applications development and technical services (AD & TS) laboratory for polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) in Latina, Italy. As part of the existing Urethane Systems AD & TS center, the new lab will operate as a standalone facility dedicated to ...

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22-Mar-2018

A new class of low-cost and sustainable hybrid materials could possibly displace activated carbon as the preferred choice for reducing wastewater and air pollution. The material is synthesized inexpensively from solid wastes and a naturally abundant polymer -- and can cut down pollutants in air ...

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28-Feb-2018

From nanoscale silver to titanium dioxide for air purification, the use of nanomaterials of high commercial relevance proves to have clear benefits as it attracts investments, and raises concerns. 'Nano' sized materials (a nanometre is one millionth of a millimetre) could pose environmental and ...

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Scientists predicted the existence of a new form of water in 1999: That existence has just been confirmed

23-Feb-2018

An original state, both solid and liquid at the same time: this is the latest news on a substance -water- so familiar to everyone but which appears to hold always fresh surprises for scientists. Its name is "superionic water"; it doesn't exist on Earth but it could be abundant inside certain ...

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