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1. Pourkargar To Modernize Integrated Chemical Manufacturing And Energy Systems 9/17/2026

   A growing variety of everyday essential items depend heavily on modern chemical manufacturing. Fuels, fertilizers, medicines, plastics and other advanced materials rely on complex, energy-intensive production networks, which face growing threats from cyberattacks, supply chain bottlenecks and volatile market shifts.

2. Toward Circular Elastomers: Covestro Opens Pilot Plant In Leverkusen 9/16/2026

   Covestro has opened a new pilot plant for the chemical recycling of high-performance elastomers at its Leverkusen site. The double-digit million-euro project moves a novel recycling process for Vulkollan from laboratory development into pilot operation.

3. Técnicas Reunidas Enters The South African Market With An Engineering Services Contract For A Large Green Hydrogen And Ammonia Plant 9/16/2026

   Hive Hydrogen South Africa (HHSA) has awarded Técnicas Reunidas the design engineering services, through a FEED (front-end engineering design) contract, for a large green hydrogen and ammonia production plant.

4. Developing New Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions For The Synthesis Of Complex Molecules 9/16/2026

   Professor Do Hyun Ryu’s research team in the Department of Chemistry has developed two new asymmetric catalytic methods for the precise synthesis of complex molecules using chiral organic catalysts.

5. Tiny Crystal Pores Trigger Selective CO₂ And Benzene Recognition 9/15/2026

   Chemical separation can be energy-intensive when molecules have similar sizes and properties. Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, developed an interlayer adaptive crystal that changes its spacing to recognize specific molecules.

6. Researchers Develop Inexpensive, Fast And Environmentally Friendly Method For Organic Synthesis 9/15/2026

   Much of organic chemistry, including the type used to create and alter medicinal drugs, relies on the modification of carbon bonds.

7. Electricity And Plasma Turn CO₂ Into Fuel And Other Useful Things 9/14/2026

   Carbon dioxide (CO_₂) can be harmful to the environment in large amounts, but can be used in the production of fuels and other useful chemicals.

8. $1M Award Will Establish New Chemical Reaction Dynamics Facility At UH Mānoa 9/13/2026

   The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has been awarded $999,997 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to build a Tunable Photoionization Chemical Dynamics Facility—a powerful scientific facility that lets researchers closely examine chemical reactions, helping them understand not just what chemicals are produced and what happens during chemical reactions, but exactly how and why the reactions happen.

9. Bridging Interfacial Water Structure And Reactivity In Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution At Tio₂ Interfaces 9/11/2026

   Understanding how interfacial water governs photocatalytic hydrogen evolution is essential for rational photocatalyst design. Here, we directly characterize the adsorption state and hydrogen-bonding structure of interfacial water and correlate them with hydrogen evolution activity.

10. SABIC AN Makes Final Investment Decision And Awards Contract For The Construction Of Industrial Complex To Produce Ammonia And Urea 9/10/2026

    SABIC Agri-Nutrients Company (SABIC AN) has announced its Board of Directors' approval of the Final Investment Decision (FID) to proceed with its project to build an industrial complex for ammonia and urea production in Saudi Arabia, with the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract awarded to Samsung E&A Co., Ltd.