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  1. AI Enhances Chemical Analysis At The Nanoscale 8/13/2024

    EPFL scientists have developed an AI-based technique to improve chemical analysis of nanomaterials, overcoming challenges of noisy data and mixed signals.

  2. Agri Waste-Based Surfactant For Industrial Synthesis 8/13/2024

    Industries and chemical labs synthesise a wide variety of organic molecules every day. Most of these chemical reactions happen in the liquid phase to allow the substrates to interact easily.

  3. Vastly Increased Potentials For Oxidation With Modified Solvents 8/13/2024

    A team of scientists headed by Professor Ingo Krossing from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Freiburg has succeeded in significantly increasing classic reagents’ potential for oxidation.

  4. Rice-Built Reactor Yields Green Ammonia And Purified Water 8/12/2024

    Ammonia plays a critical role in sustaining food production for the world’s growing population, but making it accounts for about 2% of global energy consumption and 1.4% of carbon dioxide emissions. Rice University engineers have developed a revolutionary reactor design that could decarbonize ammonia production while also mitigating water pollution.

  5. BASF Introduces Fourtiva Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Catalyst To Increase High Octane Gasoline Blending Feedstock 8/12/2024

    BASF announced today the commercial launch of Fourtiva, a new Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst for gasoil to mild resid feedstock. Fourtiva incorporates BASF’s newest Advanced Innovative Matrix (AIM) and the Multiple Frameworks Topology (MFT) technologies to achieve an optimized catalyst design to maximize butylene yields and selectivity over propylene while improving naphtha octane, LPG olefinicity and minimizing coke and dry gas.

  6. Hunton Andrews Kurth Represents Ten08 Energy LLC In Investments In Its Planned Hydrogen And Ammonia Production And Export Facility 8/12/2024

    A cross-disciplinary team of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is representing Ten08 Energy LLC (“Ten08”) in connection with investments by Navigator Holdings Ltd. and lead investor Attis Clean Energy in its planned hydrogen and ammonia production and export facility on the Texas Gulf Coast.

  7. Halogen Bonding For Selective Electrochemical Separation, Path To Sustainable Chemical Processing Demonstrated 8/12/2024

    With a new polymer that only attracts certain substances from solutions when electrically activated, researchers have taken a major step towards sustainable chemical separation.

  8. PolyU Develops Versatile Fluidic Platform For Programmable Liquid Processing 8/8/2024

    Society relies heavily on diverse fluidic technologies. The ability to precisely capture and release various chemical and biological fluids plays a fundamental role in many fields.

  9. BASF Switches Their Portfolio To Bio-Based Ethyl Acrylate (EA) 8/8/2024

    BASF gives a clear sign towards biotransformation of their (Meth)acrylate portfolio and switches their production to bio-based ethyl acrylate starting Q4 2024. With a 14C-traceable bio content of 40% according to DIN EN 16640 and a low Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), bio-based EA from BASF helps customers worldwide to reach their sustainability goals.

  10. Scripps Research Chemists Develop New Sustainable Reaction For Creating Unique Molecular Building Blocks 8/8/2024

    Polymers can be thought of like trains: Just as a train is composed of multiple cars, polymers are made up of multiple monomers, and the couplings between the train cars are similar to the chemical bonds that link monomers together.