Current Headlines

  1. Scientists Create Sustainable And Cheaper Catalysts From Aluminium 3/23/2026

    A research team at King’s have isolated a new form of aluminium – a highly abundant metal, that could provide a far cheaper and more sustainable alternative to commonly used precious metals.

  2. UCF Researcher Creates Improved Method To Harvest Hydrogen Energy 3/6/2026

    A decade of rigorous research led by Associate Professor of Material Science and Engineering Yang Yang produced an impactful patent.

  3. DGIST Achieves Top-Level Solar Hydrogen Production Efficiency Using Heavy-Metal-Free Eco-Friendly Quantum Dots 3/5/2026

    A research team led by Professor Jiwoong Yang and Professor Su Il In from the Department of Energy Science & Engineering at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee), in collaboration with Professor Jae-Yup Kim from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Konkuk University, has developed a technology to precisely control the concentration of anion defects in eco-friendly quantum dots through joint research.

  4. Supported Catalyst Design For Low-Temperature Hydrogen Production 3/5/2026

    A new catalyst strategy developed at Institute of Science Tokyo uses BaSi2 as a support for nickel and cobalt to decompose ammonia at lower temperatures.

  5. Photocatalytic Material Class: High Expectations Reinforced 3/4/2026

    Photocatalysis promises an efficient conversion of abundant solar energy into usable chemical energy.

  6. NEXTCHEM (MAIRE) Awarded €485M Contract For Licensing, PDP And Critical Proprietary Equipment Based On Its Proprietary Hydrogen, Ammonia, Urea, And Methanol Technologies For Three World-Scale Complexes In West Africa 3/4/2026

    MAIRE (MAIRE.MI) announces that NEXTCHEM, through its subsidiaries Stamicarbon and KT Tech, has been awarded licensing, process design package (PDP) and critical equipment supply contracts for the development of three world-scale complexes, two of them dedicated to urea granules production and one integrating  ammonia and methanol co-production, for a major client in West Africa.

  7. Shrinking The Carbon Footprint Of Chemical Manufacturing With Lasers, Solar Radiation 3/4/2026

    Researchers have found a way to use solar energy to power a key chemical reaction that drives many manufacturing industries.

  8. Messer To Debut A Proven Technology To Increase Nitric Acid Production Capacity At CRU Nitrogen+Syngas USA 2026 3/4/2026

    Messer, the largest privately held industrial gas company in the world, will exhibit for the first time at the CRU Nitrogen+Syngas USA Expoconference, April 21–23, 2026, in Dallas, Texas.

  9. PlasmaLeap Raises A$30M To Accelerate Zero-Emissions Production Of Fertilisers And Fuels 3/3/2026

    PlasmaLeap Technologies, the Australian company pioneering zero-emissions production of ammonia and nitric acid, has secured almost A$30 million (US$20 million) in new funding from a group of strategic and institutional investors, which was led by the Gates Foundation, Investible and Yara Growth Ventures, the venture arm of Yara International, a world leading integrated nitrogen fertilisers producer.

  10. Clariant Zeolites Partners With Vertimass To Scale-Up Innovative CADO Biofuels Technology 3/3/2026

    Clariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced a strategic collaboration with Vertimass LLC aiming to accelerate the development and commercialization of advanced zeolite catalysts for the catalytic conversion of biobased alcohols via Vertimass Consolidated Alcohols Deoxygenation and Oligomerization (CADO) process.