Saltigo focuses on palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions

Nobel Prize-winning chemistry in industrial use

28-Oct-2010 - Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions have become an important cornerstone of modern organic synthesis chemistry. They have made a wide variety of active pharmaceutical ingredients, natural substances and other complex organic molecules economically accessible. The award of this year's ...

Avantium builds YXY pilot plant for green materials and fuels

15-Oct-2010 - Avantium announced that it has started with the construction of a pilot plant at the Chemelot site (Geleen, the Netherlands). The pilot plant will produce YXY building blocks for making green materials and fuels. Avantium has developed a novel and proprietary catalytic process to convert ...

Power plant waste to be used to clean up Gulf oil spill

11-Aug-2010 - Specially treated waste material from electric power plants will soon be used to clean up oil in the Gulf thanks to the ingenuity of a University of Central Florida professor. The National Science Foundation awarded Sudipta Seal a $67,000 grant that will help the professor turn waste material, ...

Waste chip fat fuels hydrogen economy

29-Jul-2010 - Don't pour that dirty fat from the frier down the sink – it could be used to make the fuel of the future. Hydrogen has been tipped as a cleaner, greener alternative to fossil fuels. But scientists have struggled to find a way to make it that doesn't consume vast amounts of energy, use up scarce ...

OSU researchers discover new adhesive for tape, label industry

08-Jul-2010 - An incidental discovery in a wood products lab at Oregon State University has produced a new pressure-sensitive adhesive that may revolutionize the tape industry – an environmentally benign product that works very well and costs much less than existing adhesives based on petrochemicals. The new ...

Bayer MaterialScience LLC expands capabilities for medical coatings development

02-Jul-2010 - Bayer MaterialScience LLC has recently made significant improvements to its Medical Coatings Development Centre in Sheffield, England, extending its capacity for feasibility studies and customer development support. The research and development facility in Sheffield, England, is solely dedicated ...

MIT scientists transform polyethylene into a heat-conducting material

Conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator

09-Mar-2010 - Most polymers - materials made of long, chain-like molecules - are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical ...

Nanotechnologists from Penn collaborate to form near-frictionless diamond material

03-Mar-2010 - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research-Zürich have fabricated an ultra sharp, diamond-like carbon tip possessing such high strength that it is 3,000 times more wear-resistant at the nanoscale than silicon. The end result is a ...

Purac joins BE-Basic consortium for bio-based economy

23-Feb-2010 - Purac, a CSM company, signed a research contract to participate in the research program of BE-Basic; a consortium of international knowledge institutes, the Dutch government, global industry and financial partners. The research program aims at developing an economy based on renewable resources. ...

AkzoNobel boosting innovative power of UK research hub

01-Feb-2010 - AkzoNobel is investing almost €10 million to further boost the innovative power of the UK site where performance coatings are developed. A fire protection testing laboratory and a polymer lab for powder coatings are being added to the existing R&D infrastructure at the company's Felling site in ...