Licence to go where no chemist has gone before

30-Sep-2009 - Scientists at The University of Nottingham have overcome one of the significant research challenges facing electrochemists. For the first time they have found a way of probing right into the heart of an electrochemical reaction. Their breakthrough will help scientists understand how catalysts ...

Irregularities in catalyst inhibit crude oil conversion

Blueprint of the catalyst's interior

23-Sep-2009 - Irregularities in industrial catalysts can inhibit the conversion of crude oil, Utrecht University chemists have concluded. They were the first to provide a detailed blueprint of the interior of a commercially used catalyst for e.g. the production of transportation fuels from crude oil. They ...

A recipe for controlling carbon nanotubes

Case Western Reserve University researchers find mixing different metals in a catalyst can help determine structure, function

22-Sep-2009 - Nanoscopic tubes made of a lattice of carbon just a single atom deep hold promise for delivering medicines directly to a tumor, sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron, a replacement for costly platinum in fuel cells or as energy-saving transistors and ...

AllessaSyntec tells Success Story after First Major Project in its New Low-Temperature Reactor

Managing Director Dr. Wisser: „With cutting edge technology we are successful in difficult times!“

22-Sep-2009 - The first major large-scale project of a multi-step synthesis of a pharmaceutical intermediate in the new 1000-liter-low-temperature reactor has recently been finished at the AllessaSyntec GmbH & Co. KG in Frankfurt-Höchst. “We have proven that the exclusive synthesis of high-value products at a ...

Smaller isn't always better: Catalyst simulations could lower fuel cell cost

21-Sep-2009 - Imagine a car that runs on hydrogen from solar power and produces water instead of carbon emissions. While vehicles like this won't be on the market anytime soon, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are making incremental but important strides in the fuel cell technology that could make ...

Researchers from University of Huelva (UHU) apply an ecological process to get Ibuprofen from oil

03-Sep-2009 - The Compuestos de Coordinación y Organometálicos group of the University of Huelva is designing ecological catalysts to get important products such as adhesives, textiles and products with pharmacological, antibiotic or insecticide properties from hydrocarbons, that is, organic molecules derived ...

Platinum nanocatalyst could aid drugmakers

Rice chemists design polymer-coated nanorods for industrial use

02-Sep-2009 - Nanoparticles combining platinum and gold act as superefficient catalysts, but chemists have struggled to create them in an industrially useful form. Rice University chemists have answered the call with a polymer-coated version of gold-platinum nanorods, the first catalysts of their kind that can ...

Pioneering research succeeds in producing industrially vital chemical through engineered bacteria

Metabolic engineering could herald the end of fossil fuels in industrial chemical production

28-Aug-2009 - A team of South Korean scientists have succeeded in engineering the bacterium E. coli to produce the industrial chemical putrescine. The research, published in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, provides a renewable alternative to the production of this important chemical which is ...

This idea doesn't stink: New tech cuts industrial odors, pollutants

28-Aug-2009 - A North Carolina State University researcher has devised a new technology that really does not stink. In fact, it could be the key to eliminating foul odors and air pollutants emitted by industrial chicken rendering facilities and – ultimately – large-scale swine feedlots. Dr. Praveen Kolar, ...

Polymer plants licensed by INEOS started up successfully by PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Co in China

26-Aug-2009 - PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company in Xinjiang, China has started up both of their INEOS Technologies licensed polymer units within days of each other. The 550 KTA Innovene PP polypropylene plant comprises the 5th and 6th Innovene PP lines to start up in China since 1998. The 300 KTA ...