Breakthrough in capturing 'hot' CO2 from industrial exhaust

A metal-organic framework is capable of capturing CO2 at extreme temperatures

19-Nov-2024 - Industrial plants, such as those that make cement or steel, emit copious amounts of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, but the exhaust is too hot for state-of-the-art carbon removal technology. Lots of energy and water are needed to cool the exhaust streams, a requirement that has limited ...

New Insights Into the Hydrogen Bonding of Hydrogen Sulphide

What do ice cubes in a drink have to do with the smell of grandma's famous egg salad?

15-Nov-2024 - Water and the bad smelling molecule hydrogen sulphide do not seem to have a lot in common at first sight. However, when investing a little energy, some differences disappear. At first glance, the ice cube in your soft drink and the smell of grandma’s famous egg salad don’t seem to have much in ...

Carbon recycling instead of plastic trash

Iron electrocatalysis breaks down polystyrene and delivers green hydrogen

14-Nov-2024 - Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a German research team has now introduced a new method for recycling polystyrene ...

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

07-Nov-2024 - BASF and Acies Bio, one of Europe’s leading biotechnology companies, have entered into a transformative partnership to further develop a platform for fermentation technology from methanol for the production of fatty alcohols. Fatty alcohols are essential building blocks for several ingredients in ...

Start-up Entrepreneurs Want to Make Chemical Industry More Sustainable

06-Nov-2024 - To date, the chemical industry has been dependent on fossil resources, but these are finite, and their use is detrimental to the climate. That is why researchers from the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering at TU Dortmund University are developing processes for treating renewable ...

New procedure for better thermoplastics

New insights thanks to nano imaging and spectroscopy at the IRIS beamline of BESSY II

06-Nov-2024 - Bio-based thermoplastics are produced from renewable organic materials and can be recycled after use. Their resilience can be improved by blending bio-based thermoplastics with other thermoplastics. However, the interface between the materials in these blends sometimes requires enhancement to ...

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

01-Nov-2024 - The national enforcement authorities in 13 European Economic Area (EEA) countries checked nearly 4 500 cosmetic products, mainly looking at the ingredients list, for the presence of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), long chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs) and related substances, and cyclic ...

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

30-Oct-2024 - Polymers such as polypropylene are fundamental materials in the modern world, found in everything from computers to cars. Because of their ubiquity, it’s vital that materials scientists know exactly how each newly developed polymer will perform under different preparation conditions. Thanks to a ...

Data archiving with molecules

Reading synthetic polymers as data storage more efficiently

30-Oct-2024 - More and more data needs to be stored, often long-term. Synthetic polymers are an alternative to conventional storage media, as they retain stored information with significantly lower space and energy requirements. However, mass spectrometric data readout limits the length and thus the storage ...

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

29-Oct-2024 - Neste and Braskem have reached an agreement for the supply of renewable and recycled feedstocks for polymers and chemicals production. Braskem products based on these feedstocks are expected to be available on the market starting from the fourth quarter of 2024. These products will be sold mainly ...