LANXESS wins ICIS Innovation Award for LFP battery materials

LANXESS also examines production of iron phosphate as a precursor for LFP

10-Sep-2024 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has developed new high-quality iron oxides for use in lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries and received the ICIS Innovation Award 2024. The award in the category “Best Product Innovation from a Large Company” recognizes LANXESS’ outstanding contribution to ...

Fuel Cells: Oxidation processes of phosphoric acid revealed by tender X-rays

Options for increasing the lifetime and efficiency of fuel cells

05-Apr-2024 - The interactions between phosphoric acid and the platinum catalyst in high-temperature PEM fuel cells are more complex than previously assumed. Experiments at BESSY II with tender X-rays have decoded the multiple oxidation processes at the platinum-electrolyte interface. The results indicate that ...

Arkema finalizes the divestment of its phosphorus derivatives business

05-Jan-2023 - Arkema finalized the divestment of Febex, a company specialized in phosphorus-based chemistry, to Belgian group Prayon. Febex is a global player in phosphorus derivatives (high purity phosphoric acid, sodium hypophosphite and derivatives), used primarily in electronics and in the pharmaceuticals ...

Scientists develop a method to turn hazardous acidic industrial wastewater into valuable resources

The process reducing the volume of wastewater by 90%

14-Sep-2022 - A research team of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev environmental scientists has developed a circular process for eliminating the risk posed by phosphoric acid plant wastewater. The process turns the environmentally toxic wastewater into clean water while recovering valuable acids. Phosphoric ...

How the first biomolecules could have been formed

International team shows that the first biologically relevant compounds could have originated on Earth's surface

14-Jun-2022 - The chemical precursors of present-day biomolecules could have formed not only in the deep sea at hydrothermal vents, but also in warm ponds on the Earth's surface. The chemical reactions that may have occurred in this “primordial soup” have now been reproduced in experiments by an international ...

LANXESS: Combining business segments bears fruit

Strong synergy effects at Rhein Chemie Additives

15-Feb-2016 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS combined all its additive-related business segments in the new Rhein Chemie Additives business unit (ADD) in early 2015, and the move is bearing fruit. One synergy effect is the more efficient utilization of phosphorus plants operated by the company at various ...

Flexible supercapacitor raises bar for volumetric energy density

Could be woven into clothes to power wearable medical, communications devices

13-May-2014 - Scientists have taken a large step toward making a fiber-like energy storage device that can be woven into clothing and power wearable medical monitors, communications equipment or other small electronics. The device is a supercapacitor—a cousin to the battery. This one packs an interconnected ...

Chemists explain the molecular workings of promising fuel cell electrolyte

24-Apr-2012 - Researchers from New York University and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart reveal how protons move in phosphoric acid in a Nature Chemistry study that sheds new light on the workings of a promising fuel cell electrolyte. Phosphoric acid fuel cells were the first modern fuel cell types to be ...

Reducing production costs and environmental footprint for semiconductor industry

TNO and Solvay develop new process for high purity Phosphoric acid

04-May-2011 - Solvay and TNO have developed together a new process for the purification of Phosphoric acid. Based on a novel and very precise crystallisation technology perfected by TNO, the TNO HWC®. This technology is especially suited to producing Phosphoric acid that meets the extremely stringent purity ...

Graphene oxide gets green

Rice researchers show environmentally friendly ways to make it in bulk, break it down

27-Jul-2010 - "We can make you and we can break you." If Rice University scientists wrote country songs, their ode to graphene oxide would start something like that. But this song wouldn't break anybody's heart. A new paper from the lab of Rice chemist James Tour demonstrates an environmentally friendly way ...