Controlling matter at the atomic level: University of Bath breakthrough

Physicists are getting closer to controlling single-molecule chemical reactions – could this shape the future of pharmaceutical research?

09-Dec-2024 - Controlling matter at the atomic level has taken a major step forward, thanks to groundbreaking nanotechnology research by an international team of scientists led by physicists at the University of Bath. This advancement has profound implications for fundamental scientific understanding. It is ...

Covestro becomes a shareholder in company BioBTX

Demonstration plant planned for new chemical recycling method

06-Jun-2024 - By participating as a strategic partner in the company BioBTX, Covestro is enabling the construction of the world’s first innovative demonstration plant for the BioBTX ICCP-Technology in the Netherlands. The technology makes it possible to produce chemicals such as benzene, toluene and xylene ...

Researchers seek to re-use waste plastics to make valuable petrochemicals

“The produced ethylene and BTX aromatics from plastic upcycling can be used as feedstocks to re-make plastics”

20-Jan-2022 - Despite efforts to promote recycling and reuse of plastic materials, the plastic problem continues to be a global problem.West Virginia Universityengineers hope to debottleneck the remaining challenges for recycling of single-use plastic packaging by upcycling them into ...

Promising biobased alternatives to polar aprotic solvents

07-Dec-2017 - A report from Wageningen Food & Biobased Research commissioned by RIVM (the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) has revealed a number of promising biobased alternatives to the controversial polar aprotic solvents NMP, DMAc and DMF. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research ...

Cool combination produces easier carbon bonds

25-Apr-2016 - By combining two century-old techniques in organic chemistry, Syuzanna Harutyunyan is able to make organic compounds with greater ease and precision. Such compounds are important for drug discovery and development. Almost 90 percent of known active pharmaceutical ingredients contain one or more ...

Pure industrial chemicals by gasifying lignocellulosic biomass

18-May-2015 - VTT has demonstrated that lignocellulosic biomass can be successfully converted into pure BTX chemicals: benzene, toluene and xylene. The aim of this research is to enable the use of wood-based chemicals to replace crude oil in, for example, plastics, fuels, medicine and paints. Demand has grown ...

The Basis for Polyester and Polyurethane: Ceresana Analyzes the Global Market for Toluene

27-Jan-2015 - Fuel additives or solvents, basis for polyurethane plastics or explosives: Toluene is used in a wide variety of applications. "The market volume is considerable", says Oliver Kutsch, CEO of the market research institute Ceresana: "In 2013 toluene worth US$24.5 billion was sold worldwide." A new ...

Ceresana Analyses the Global Market for Solvents

21-Aug-2014 - No matter if paints or adhesives, pharmaceutical drugs or cosmetics: solvents are immensely important in the manufacturing of many industrial goods. Ceresana publishes the most comprehensive report on the global market for solvents. According to this study, already published in its third edition, ...

Monitoring the air they breathe in China

27-May-2013 - Research describes the development of a simple, low-cost passive air sampler for monitoring indoor air pollution in China. Air quality in China is a hot topic, with air pollution rivalling food safety and clean drinking water as a key theme for Chinese lawmakers. Scientists at Tsinghua University ...

Super-nanotubes: 'Remarkable' spray-on coating combines carbon nanotubes with ceramic

19-Apr-2013 - Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Kansas State University have demonstrated a spray-on mixture of carbon nanotubes and ceramic that has unprecedented ability to resist damage while absorbing laser light. Coatings that absorb as much of the energy of ...