Creation of digital twins of machines in minutes

AI startup Tomorrow Things simplifies and accelerates complex digitalisation of machines: EUR 1.5 million in seed funding

25-Mar-2024 - AI start-up Tomorrow Things has secured €1.5m in funding to continue the development of an AI-powered Operating System for machines on the internet. This solution will save clients up to 90% in manual integration and other costs. An investment to make AI fly Tomorrow Things’ €1.5m funding was ...

Researchers succeed in synthesizing a new form of iron

New perspectives for important fields of application such as the energy industry

25-Mar-2024 - Iron is one of the most common elements on earth and in the entire universe. It plays a key role in all areas of our lives, be it in industry or for the transport of oxygen in our blood. Researchers at Saarland University and other colleagues from Germany have now succeeded in synthesizing a new ...

Revolutionizing hydrogen production: Economical and efficient solutions unveiled

This research, which has solved two problems at once, is attracting attention

25-Mar-2024 - Water eletrolysis process is a system that produces hydrogen by electrolyzing water. It is an eco-friendly technology that can produce hydrogen fuel, a future energy source, without emitting environmental pollutants, but its limitations have been pointed out as low hydrogen production efficiency ...

Siemens to acquire industrial drive technology business of ebm-papst

25-Mar-2024 - Siemens AG has signed an agreement to acquire the industrial drive technology (IDT) business of ebm-papst. The business, which employs around 650 people, includes intelligent, integrated mechatronic systems in the protective extra-low voltage range and innovative motion control systems. These ...

New Method for Analysing Nanoporous Materials

Innovative method opens up new possibilities for materials science

22-Mar-2024 - Using only a single electron microscope image, researchers at TU Graz can determine the type and exact position of so-called guest atoms in high-tech materials. They also come closer to solving the mystery of the blue colour of aquamarine. In addition to their main components, the properties of ...

Change at the top of ALTANA’s Supervisory Board

22-Mar-2024 - The specialty chemicals group ALTANA has a new Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Prof. Dr. Frank Richter, who has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ALTANA AG since May 2020, has been elected to this position. The industrial engineer and Managing Director of SKion GmbH takes over from Dr. ...

Fraunhofer IPMS develops new multi-sensor system for water analysis

New standards in the assessment of water quality

22-Mar-2024 - With groundbreaking developments in the field of chemical sensor technology, the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS is setting new standards in the assessment of water quality for humans and the environment. In addition to key parameters such as conductivity and pH, nutrients ...

BASF breaks ground on methyl glycols plant at Zhanjiang Verbund site in China

First fully backward integrated methyl glycols plant in China upon completion

22-Mar-2024 - BASF has broken ground on a methyl glycols (MG) plant at its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. The new facility is designed with an annual capacity of 46,000 metric tons and aims to meet the rapidly growing demand for brake fluids in the region. The plant is scheduled to commence operations by ...

Meeting with far-reaching consequences: chemie.de brings together start-up and established company

New development on show for the first time at analytica

22-Mar-2024 - In the dynamic world of start-ups, a chance encounter can have unexpected and far-reaching consequences. A perfect example of this dynamic is the story of the cooperation between the start-up droptical and the company DataPhysics Instruments, which began at an event organized by BayStartUp and ...

Nitrogen-based compoundsdiscovered as new high-performance energy storage materials

"High-pressure chemistry demonstrates the existence and diversity of polynitrides, opening perspectives for their applications in science and technology"

21-Mar-2024 - Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have synthesized unique scandium polynitrides under extreme conditions, with exotic chemistry and potential applications as high-energy-density materials. Their results are published in the “Nature Communications” journal. High-energy density materials ...