X-rays reveal elusive chemistry for better EV batteries

High energy x-rays to investigate the solid-electrolyte interphase, a chemical layer in batteries that's key to stabilizing lithium metal anodes

08-Dec-2022 - Researchers around the world are on a mission to relieve a bottleneck in the clean energy revolution:batteries. From electric vehicles to renewable grid-scale energy storage, batteries are at the heart of society’s most crucial green innovations—but they need to pack more energy to make these ...

Nouryon expands global alkoxylation network with addition of plant in Singapore

07-Dec-2022 - Nouryon announced that it has expanded its alkoxylation footprint in Southeast Asia through an asset purchase on Jurong Island, Singapore. The acquired plant will enhance Nouryon’s ability to serve growing regional customer demand in key end-markets including Agriculture and Food, Home and ...

Milestone for laser technology: Huge research machine much smaller and cost-effective

Research team demonstrates free-electron laser driven by plasma accelerated electron beams and seeded by additional light pulses

07-Dec-2022 - Extremely intense light pulses generated by free-electron lasers (FELs) are versatile tools in research. Particularly in the X-ray range, they can be deployed to analyze the details of atomic structures of a wide variety of materials. Until now, FELs such as the European XFEL in Germany are based ...

POWTECH 2023: A flying start with new themes and technologies

Trade Fair to expressly include the processing and handling of fluids

06-Dec-2022 - POWTECH is getting off to a flying start. The Leading International Processing Trade Fair will take place in Nuremberg from 26 to 28 September 2023 – almost exactly a year after POWTECH 2022. Once again, more than 700 exhibitors from many countries will draw a large attendance of regional and ...

From a greenhouse gas to an industrial raw material

06-Dec-2022 - Rather than being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating the problem of climate change, CO2 can also be used as a raw material for substances required in industrial processes, such as formic acid or methanol. The conversion of CO2 has already been investigated in detail in laboratory ...

Water that simply will not freeze

An exotic interplay of electrons: International research team discovers novel quantum state

06-Dec-2022 - Water that simply will not freeze, no matter how cold it gets – a research group involving the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has discovered a quantum state that could be described in this way. Experts from the Institute of Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo in Japan, ...

ystral cooperates with Fraunhofer FFB in the battery cell research production project

06-Dec-2022 - ystral is supporting the battery cell research production project in Münster with a mixing and dispersing plant in the FFB PreFab, which will be used to test manufacturing processes and new recipes for battery cell production. The Fraunhofer FFB being built as part of the project will enable ...

Covestro turns to biotechnology for sustainable plastics

Progress in extracting chemicals from plants

05-Dec-2022 - Covestro is expanding its competencies in industrial biotechnology. The plastics manufacturer intends to make increasing use of microorganisms and enzymes to make its products and processes even more sustainable. In particular, new recycling processes based on biotechnology are also to be ...

A sustainable path for energy-demanding photochemistry

Novel strategy for the generation of highly energetic UV light

05-Dec-2022 - Many photochemical processes rely on UV light from inefficient or toxic light sources that the LED technology cannot replace for technical reasons. An international team of scientists led by Professor Christoph Kerzig of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany and Professor Nobuhiro ...

INERATEC receives around 6 million euros of funding from German Environment Ministry for e-fuel plant

Industrial power-to-liquid plant in Frankfurt to receive funding from environmental innovation program

05-Dec-2022 - The Karlsruhe-based Cleantech company INERATEC is building the world’s first large-scale industrial production plant for synthetic fuel in Germany. This will make INERATEC the market leader for the production of e-fuels. Their use will make both shipping and aviation climate neutral. Funding from ...