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71. A New Application For Industry's Toughest Lignin 7/29/2026

    The pulp and paper industry, which manufactures everything from tissue paper to cardboard, also generates a significant yet often overlooked byproduct — a complex polymer called lignin.

72. Plants Employ Rare Method To Produce Valuable Chemical Compound 7/29/2026

    Land plants have spent nearly half a billion years honing a vast array of metabolic skills that help them survive an onslaught of ecological threats.

73. Turning Nitrate Into Ammonia With Sunlight And Gold 7/29/2026

    Plants need nitrogen fertilizers, which are usually ammonia-based. Ammonia is therefore one of the most important chemical products of all. However, its production is currently extremely energy-intensive.

74. A Successful, Sustainable Catalyst For Ethanol Dehydrogenation 7/29/2026

    Ethanol is an alcohol used in a huge number of industrial and household applications. When dehydrogenated — in this case, stripped of some of its hydrogen atoms — it yields another important compound: acetaldehyde, which is used to make resins, dyes, perfumes, and synthetic flavors, among many other products.

75. thyssenkrupp nucera Hands Over State-Of-The-Art Chlor-Alkali Plant To Chlorum Solutions In Palmeira, Brazil 7/29/2026

    thyssenkrupp nucera has successfully handed over a new chlor-alkali electrolysis plant to Chlorum Solutions at its site in Palmeira, Brazil. The facility has now been successfully commissioned and is fully operational.

76. Scientists Repair Damaged Plastics At The Molecular Level, Boosting Recycling Potential 7/28/2026

    Plastic recycling could become far more effective thanks to a new technique that restores the strength of damaged engineering plastics by repairing them at the molecular level, researchers at Tohoku University have demonstrated.

77. Lightbulb-Inspired Reactor Tackles Three Major Decarbonisation Challenges 7/28/2026

    Researchers from NUS have developed a lightbulb-inspired reactor that uses electricity to drive chemical reactions efficiently, with potential applications in hydrogen production, plastic recycling and methane conversion.

78. Converting Captured CO₂ Into Valuable Chemicals 7/28/2026

    With the aim of advancing integrated CO₂ capture and electrochemical conversion, researchers from the Interface Science Department of the Fritz Haber Institute investigated how the concentration of KHCO₃, a typical CO₂ capture medium, controls the electrochemical conversion of CO₂ on copper in a membrane-electrode-assembly (MEA) electrolyzer.

79. A New Dual-Doping Strategy Makes Solar-Powered Ammonia Production Efficiency Boost More Than Four Times 7/27/2026

    Ammonia is one of the world's most important chemicals, essential for fertilizer production and increasingly recognized as a promising clean energy carrier. However, almost all ammonia is still produced using the century-old Haber-Bosch process, which requires high temperature, high pressure and large amounts of energy, resulting in significant carbon emissions.

80. Low-Cost, Rare-Earth-Free Material For Carbon Recycling 7/27/2026

    To improve carbon recycling and reduce emissions, researchers at Science Tokyo developed iron-substituted calcium titanate (Fe-doped CaTiO₃) as an environmentally friendly support material for chemical looping, a process that converts carbon dioxide (CO₂) into carbon monoxide for fuel and chemical production.