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Merck accelerates growth, driven by all business sectors

Merck confirms and specifies guidance for fiscal 2024

AVT GmbH Becomes Part of the Busch Group

“In AVT GmbH we are winning a competent partner for the heat treatment equipment service business”

Click & Try: A Failed Experiment and Chance Opened up new Paths to an Established Reaction for Chemists

Freed from the Niche with Click Chemistry

Bodo Möller Chemie launches Japanese subsidiary

Accelerating Asian market expansion

Bayer: Strategic progress in challenging business environment

Bill Anderson: “We're tackling challenges head on and making progress on our strategic priorities”

New technology for solid state batteries

Qkera selected as one of the 25 best start-ups at Falling Walls

Nacelle presents breakthrough production of Prussian White with special nanocoating for sodium-ion batteries

virtual battery day 2024: The digital stage for pioneering battery and energy storage technologies

Don't miss the biggest digital event in the battery world!

Qemetica's salt business in Europe grows significantly

Salt from Staßfurt is sold in 20 European countries

What influences the success of founders

Outstanding dissertation in the field of entrepreneurship honoured

LANXESS significantly increases earnings in the third quarter of 2024

Higher volumes and better capacity utilization, along with cost savings, drive earnings

BASF partners with Acies Bio to drive sustainable production of Personal and Home Care ingredients

Partnership on biotechnology supports the further development of fermentation technology

Tosoh Bioscience – Separation & Purification Expands European Headquarters in Griesheim, Germany

"This new facility will allow us to better serve our customers and explore new chromatography techniques and applications"

Start-up Entrepreneurs Want to Make Chemical Industry More Sustainable

AI power for the battery industry: camLine and theion collaborate

camLine and theion reduce R&D battery testing time by 98% using AI

Neste, Alterra and Technip Energies collaborate to offer standardized solution to build chemical recycling plants

Combining the expertise of three companies in one solution

Porsche may acquire stake in Varta and majority stake in e-mobility division "V4Drive"

Start-up Mechanolution wants to revolutionize the chemical industry

In an interview, the founding team reveals what makes their collaboration successful

New Global CEO for CREMER OLEO

Neste and Braskem announce agreement on supply of renewable and recycled feedstocks for polymers and chemicals production

Braskem will use more sustainable feedstocks from Neste to produce circular and bio-circular polymer resins and chemicals

Flower Power: Lavender Oil Fuels Batteries for the Future

Unique material created to solve a persistent failure problem

Start-up aims to revolutionise CO₂ capture and conversion technology

Aerleum raises $6M in seed round

A “chemical ChatGPT” for new medications

AI learns chemical connections

Are trees the future for the production of industrial chemicals?

Finding could help turn trees into affordable, greener industrial chemicals

The fireproof battery

Salt batteries

Hydrogen: Breakthrough in alkaline membrane electrolyzers

Machine learning can predict the mechanical properties of polymers

A machine learning algorithm can use X-ray diffraction data from polymers to predict the behaviour of new materials

Old becomes new - how new chemical products are made from used frying oil

Selective one-pot reaction

No significant PFAS emissions from waste incineration

Researchers investigate the effectiveness of combustion processes

Major investment boosts next-generation 3D printing technology

UpNano receives capital boost for further advancing high-end 2PP 3D printers, materials, and services

Hazardous chemicals found in cosmetics

A pilot enforcement project by ECHA’s Enforcement Forum found that 6% of inspected cosmetic products contained hazardous substances banned under POPs and REACH regulations

UK bioplastics breakthrough wins US plastics industry prize

“2024 is our year – we've scaled up three products, secured investor backing, brought new talent onboard and successfully launched our first commercial application"

Is the physics of red blood cells in bats a key to "artificial hibernation" for humans?

The new findings could contribute towards the development of new medical treatments

Energy drinks - the underestimated danger

New test improves diagnosis of allergies

Higher diagnostic accuracy than standard tests

Microbe of the Year 2023: Bacillus subtilis – for health and technology

Already, Bacillus subtilis is indispensable in many industries, and many more innovations are expected

Precise and fast kokumi effect

"Kokumi" is the name given to the spicy, full-bodied taste of mature cheeses. A new method can be used to effectively analyze the relevant peptides.

“The integration of robotics and AI is poised to revolutionize science labs”

By automating routine tasks, scientists can focus on higher-level research questions, paving the way for faster breakthroughs

Berlin-Based Neurotech Startup Secures Investment for the Development of a Digital Drug to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

Activating the Memory System of the Brain with Software to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

Solein® tops the list of NASA’s alternatives for space food systems

Detecting evidence of lung cancer in exhaled breath

Sensing technology could provide a breakthrough in non-invasive lung cancer screening

Possible trigger of Crohn’s disease discovered

Dysfunctional mitochondria disrupt the gut microbiome

When it comes to building muscle, not all proteins are created equal

Researchers find ground beef packs bigger muscle-building punch than soy-based alternative

Drug discovery within the patient

Genetic analysis of bacteria from humans and animals paves the way for new active ingredients

Superspreader fibrils caught in the act

Mintel announces Global Food and Drink Trends for 2025

New insights into the genetics of the common octopus: genome at the chromosome level decoded

Scientific milestone provides deeper insights into the evolution and biology of Octopus vulgaris

The preparation makes the poison

1.3 million pizzas with solar power

Gustavo Gusto produces with a PV system from E.ON

The Nobel Prize Winners 2017

Internal clock, gravitational waves and cold analysis

Protein interactions: who is partying with whom and who is ruining the party?

New method for investigating protein interaction networks - also of interest for pharmaceutical research

Delicious and plant-based: the new EXTRA plant-based chewing gum

For the launch of the new EXTRA® plant-based chewing gum, Mars Wrigley is working with the environmental organization The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to support their conservation work in the Mexican rainforest.

AI does not necessarily lead to more efficiency in clinical practice

Researchers analyse the effects

A “chemical ChatGPT” for new medications

AI learns chemical connections

Full-bodied cheese flavor–prediction of flavor development soon possible thanks to new method

AI-driven mobile robots team up to tackle chemical synthesis

Chemical research in turbo mode

Possible approach for the treatment of neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases discovered

With “electro-agriculture,” plants can produce food in the dark and with 94% less land, bioengineers say

Kaspar Hauser was 99.9994 percent not a prince

New DNA analyses spark controversy over origins

Understanding How Mutations Affect Diseases

Novel Framework to Study Polygenic Diseases

Sustainable food innovations from broccoli side streams

The focus is on the cultivation and utilization of the entire plant

ONE microscopy: from molecule to 3D structure with conventional microscopy

The simple and cost-effective method developed using a few simple but effective tricks