WACKER POLYMERS Under New Leadership

Management changes at hte

Wolfram Stichert will hand over the management of the company to Markus Bold on April 1, 2025.

Leadership change at KRAHN Chemie

Martin John takes over as CEO

Innovative Methods for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry

Fresenius Award for Kathrin Breuker

Insights into the Nanoworld: Volker Deckert Receives the 2025 Lamb Award

A Pioneer in Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Jochen Block Award 2025 for Dr. Thomas Seidensticker

Start-up “simplyfined” wants to make the chemical industry more sustainable

DMC Biotechnologies announces Dr. Jim Flatt as CEO

DMC seeking to transform how the world makes chemicals

Key Position Changes at Brückner Group

A Veteran Departs

Appointment of Dr. Werner Ponikwar as CEO of thyssenkrupp nucera extended by five years

Dr. Stefan Hahn to become new CFO

Michael Grosse to succeed Joachim Kreuzburg as Chief Executive Officer of Sartorius AG

Grosse to take over as Group CEO on July 1, 2025

New general manager at Oxford Instruments WITec in Ulm

LIKAT chemist receives award for digital data management and AI in catalysis

3D printer as a reactor for new materials

Chemist Katharina Ehrmann receives the Dr. Ernst Fehrer Prize

Innovations for the operational reliability of modern lithium-ion batteries

Meyer-Galow Award for Business Chemistry 2024 goes to Ruth Bieringer

Generation Change in the Management of JÜKE

New Global CEO for CREMER OLEO

Black Magic for Greener Chemistry

Markus Antonietti receives Arkema Prize from the French Académie des Sciences

Change of CEO at ZEISS in 2025

Dr Karl Lamprecht will not extend his contract

Change in the Executive Board of the Röchling Group

Person with the World's Largest Negative Carbon Footprint Wins the €1 Million Millennium Technology Prize

Innovation has revolutionized the power industry

Dr. Christine Munz becomes CEO at Eppendorf

Dr. Wilhelm Plüster completes term in office as planned

"Merck is back on a growth path with all three businesses"

Merck returned to profitable growth in 2024 and delivered on its guidance for the year

Complete breakdown of PMMA plastic into its building blocks

Surprisingly simple process

Converting CO2 into fuel – with the help of battery waste

Upcycling as a climate game-changer: A nanocatalyst has been produced based on spent batteries and aluminium foil residues, converting CO2 into valuable methane

Ruland celebrates 25 years of success

Important technological milestone: production of sustainable aviation fuel becomes more efficient

KIT and Sunfire succeed in Kopernikus project P2X technology upgrade for CO2-neutral production of fuels

Triple Bond Formed Between Boron and Carbon for the First Time

Researchers are opening up new horizons in chemistry: They present the world's first triple bond between the atoms boron and carbon

Medical infusion bags can release microplastics

Researchers estimate that each bag of infusion fluid could deliver about 7,500 microplastics directly into the bloodstream

Researchers are cracking the code on solid-state batteries

Using a combination of advanced imagery and ultra-thin coatings, researchers are working to revolutionize solid-state battery performance

High-tech startup CrySyst provides quality-by-control solutions for pharmaceutical, fine chemical industries

“These tools reduce time, material usage and risk while enhancing process robustness and scalability”

C1 raised €20 million in fresh capital to replace fossil resources in the shipping, aviation and chemical industries

Green methanol: Commercialisation of the circular raw material of the future

Novel Memristors to Overcome AI’s "Catastrophic Forgetting"

The "funky" side of solid-state battery development

Material design and surface modifications create new opportunities

Fascinating new findings: Obesity starts in the brain

Even a short-term intake of highly processed, unhealthy foods can lead to serious changes in the brain

Pineapple juice is scarce and expensive due to a small harvest

Between test tube and algorithm: the laboratory of the future under the microscope

Study on the transformation of laboratories

A method to purify proteins with light

Gentler and more efficient than previous procedures

Eating mangos daily shown to improve insulin sensitivity and blood glucose control

New research finds mangos may be key to reducing insulin resistance in adults who are overweight or obese

Just take a photo to determine the chemical composition

Chemists use machine learning and robotics to identify chemical compositions from images

Antimalarial drug together with anticancer drug is efficient against leukemia

Combination of approved drugs offers new strategies for acute myeloid leukemia

Unilever reaches new business arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel

Unilever announced it has reached a new arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel which will ensure the ice cream stays available to all consumers

analytica expands its international network to the USA

US laboratory market with top growth forecasts

Groundbreaking AI tool generates 3D map of the brain

It is a detailed view of the brain like never seen before: allowing users to zoom in and out — from all angles, like a Google Earth map

From research to startup: Polybot receives order for AI-based harvesting robotics

"The Polybot project leverages recent breakthroughs in machine learning to make polyculture farming economically viable"

Science on the back burner: European laboratories struggle with massive restrictions

Great sustainability ambitions and willingness to innovate despite the need to save money

Natural substance spray against pulmonary fibrosis

Project receiving 800,000 euros from the biomedical start-up incubator IBT Lower Saxony

With bird flu in raw milk, many in U.S. still do not know risks of consuming it

PFAS: Found 180 times more ‘forever chemicals’ in birds

New technology allows for much more precise measurements of these chemicals in organisms

Extreme Mutation Hotspot in Bacteria Discovered: Study Links High Mutation Rates to Transcriptional Activation

Groundbreaking research identifies a 5000-fold increase in mutation rates in the promoter of a bacterial gene

Volcafe and Cotierra partner to generate carbon credits from biochar within coffee value chains

Partnership marks pioneering advance for Colombian coffee farmers

Why is Usain Bolt the fastest person on Earth?

Researchers observe muscles at work with the help of new microscopes

Smoking and antibiotic resistance: How cigarette waste promotes the spread of resistant germs

Smoking becomes an indirect health risk

Who is ready to eat a plant-based diet?

Study shows: Medical recommendations and a good infrastructure in particular can help people switch to a more plant-based diet

Mayo Clinic researchers map prostate cancer relapse

By using C-11 choline PET and MRI

Tool identifies specific viruses to combat dangerous bacteria

Research team shortens the search for attackers that can wipe out multiresistant pathogens – with the aim of treating infections without antibiotics

AI food scanner turns phone photos into nutritional analysis

NYU Tandon researchers develop technology to calculate calories and nutrients from food images

Analyze odorous substances without errors

Comparative study confirms established method as gold standard

Origin of Life: How microbes laid the foundation for complex cells

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants

Eating walnuts for breakfast may boost your brain function

How to save energy in the laboratory

Electricity Saving Challenge: Exploring savings potential in the laboratory

New imaging reveals the secrets of cellular traffic control

Texas A&M University researchers work with experts from EMBL Imaging Centre to uncover how molecules navigate the nuclear pore complex

Acai start-up The Rainforest Company is insolvent

Financial problems and investor dispute lead to the end

First use of graphene to detect cancer cells

What can't graphene do? You can scratch "detect cancer" off of that list