Degussa: Breakthrough in hydrogen peroxide business

12-May-2006 - Degussa AG has achieved a far-reaching breakthrough in its hydrogen peroxide business (H2O2). According to the company, with an annual capacity exceeding 550,000 tonnes, the specialty chemicals company is the world's second-largest producer of this environmentally-compatible bleaching and ...

Agilent Technologies acquires manufacturer of synthetic nucleic acids for pharmaceutical and biotech industries

Acquisition addresses rapidly growing RNA synthesis market

19-Apr-2006 - Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that it has acquired privately held SynPro Corp., the owner of a contract manufacturing facility established to supply active pharmaceutical ingredients and provide related services. Financial details were not disclosed. Based in Boulder, Colo., the facility ...

Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Novaled enter industrial collaboration in OLED materials

18-Apr-2006 - Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Novaled announced an industrial collaboration in the field of OLED materials. Ciba Specialty Chemicals will produce the unique organic dopant and transport materials developed by Novaled. According to Ciba, the unique organic dopant and transport materials for its ...

Degussa and Hikal sign manufacturing agreement

16-Mar-2006 - The Exclusive Synthesis & Catalysts business unit of Degussa AG, Dusseldorf, Germany, has announced that it has signed a long-term, non-exclusive agreement with Hikal Ltd., India, for a cooperation on the manufacture of pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs. Under this agreement Degussa will ...

New class of metal nitrides could lead to more durable semiconductors

06-Mar-2006 - New research shows that a novel class of nitrides made from noble metals can be synthesized under extreme conditions and are likely to have unusual or even unique properties that would be useful in semiconductor, superconductor and corrosion-resistant devices. Historically, transition metal ...

Hard Shell - Soft Core

Polymeric microspheres have a shell whose density is dependent on the temperature

03-Mar-2006 - Nanoparticles whose outer shells and inner cores are made of different materials are useful for many industrial and biomedical applications. In order for nanoparticles to be used as sensors or for the controlled release of substances held within their shell, for example, an important requirement ...

Peakdale Extends its Range of Medicinal Chemistry Services

23-Feb-2006 - Peakdale Molecular Ltd announced the extension of its Medicinal Chemistry Services to further support its customers' drug discovery programmes. The services enable the Company to provide compounds with a superior starting point for hit discovery, resulting in significant savings for subsequent ...

ANGUS to withdraw sales of nitrofuels outside of the US

23-Jan-2006 - Effective immediately, ANGUS Chemical Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, is exiting all Nitromethane-based racing fuel sales, including NITROFUEL(TM) nitromethane and NM(TM) nitromethane products, in all parts of the world except National Hot Rod Association ...

Biotage AB Signs Two Exclusive Agreements with Reaxa

20-Jan-2006 - Under a first agreement between Reaxa and Biotage both companies will develop "MicroEnCat(tm)" an encapsulated palladium catalyst range optimized for use in Biotage's Microwave Synthesizers, including the development of prefilled microwave vials and flow-through devices. A second agreement offers ...

QuickNanocontainer Construction

Finished in one step: nanoscale octahedral nanocontainers

02-Jan-2006 - Nanoscale containers are in high demand because of their ability to enclose molecules. They can, for example, be used asmolecular reaction chambers for controlled chemical reactions or as transporters and storage containers for drugs or pesticides; they can also filter poisonous substances out of ...