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  1. Common Metal, Unusual Power: New Manganese(I) Complex Breaks Lifetime Record For Excited States 8/27/2025

    Reactions are typically driven by heat. However, in recent years, light has also established itself as an energy source, as it allows chemical reactions to be controlled with exceptional precision.

  2. New Insights Give Copper Catalysts A Boost 8/26/2025

    Platinum is often used as a catalyst to speed up industrial electrochemical reactions, such as those involved in wastewater treatment and in fuel cells for power generation.

  3. Researchers Leverage Advanced Bioengineering Techniques To Develop Plastics Made From Sustainable Biomaterials   8/26/2025

    Plastic products frequently pile up in landfills or spill into natural habitats where they occupy space and endanger wildlife.

  4. More Hydrogen, More Ammonia, More Fertilizer, All Using Less Energy 8/26/2025

    Researchers led by Genki Kobayashi at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan recently discovered a way to max out the amount of hydrogen that can be stored in perovskite crystalline powder.

  5. BASF And Yara End Joint Project For Low-Carbon Ammonia At U.S. Gulf Coast 8/26/2025

    BASF and Yara International ASA have jointly decided to discontinue their project to develop a low-carbon ammonia production facility with carbon capture and storage in the U.S. Gulf Coast region.

  6. TRUNNANO Achieves Breakthrough In Spherical Aluminum Nitride Powder Production 8/25/2025

    TRUNNANO, a leading innovator in advanced chemical materials, has announced a major breakthrough in the production of high-purity spherical aluminum nitride (AlN) powder, overcoming long-standing technical challenges in the field.

  7. Chemists Develop Molecule For Important Step Toward Artificial Photosynthesis 8/25/2025

    A research team from the University of Basel has developed a new molecule modeled on plant photosynthesis: under the influence of light, it stores two positive and two negative charges at the same time.

  8. Recon Hits Milestone: Chemical Recycling Plant Construction Finished As Project Nears Production Launch 8/25/2025

    Recon Technology Ltd. ("Recon" or "the Company"), a China-based provider of oilfield and low-carbon energy services, announced today that the main manufacturing plant for Shandong Recon Renewable Resources Technology Co., Ltd. ("Shandong Recon")'s 40,000-ton-per-year waste plastic chemical recycling project ("Recon Plastic Chemical Recycling Project") was successfully topped out.

  9. Asahi Kasei To Double Production Capacity For PIMEL Photosensitive Polyimide By 2030 8/22/2025

    Diversified global manufacturer Asahi Kasei will increase PIMEL photosensitive polyimide (PSPI) production capacity at its Fuji City facility in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. PSPI is a key material for the global electronics industry, mainly used for buffer coatings and passivation layers in semiconductor applications.

  10. Department Of Electrical Engineering Proposes Green Flexible Chemical Electrification To Align Decarbonization With Power System Security 8/22/2025

    On the road to achieving carbon neutrality, the chemical industry has consistently been a "hard nut to crack," especially in the production of ammonia and methanol, which are not only major products of the industry but also significant sources of carbon emissions.