IIVS Collaborates with BASF and Givaudan to Validate a Non-animal Test for Regulatory Submissions

29-Aug-2018 - The Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS), with an established track record in the validation of alternatives to animal testing, is teaming up with BASF and Givaudan to validate an improved skin sensitization reactivity method to address the needs of toxicologists and regulators. Scientists at ...

Are 20 percent of materials chemistry papers wrong?

18-Dec-2017 - Can companies rely on the results of one or two scientific studies to design a new industrial process or launch a new product? In at least one area of materials chemistry, the answer may be yes -- but only 80 percent of the time. The replicability of results from scientific studies has become a ...

How good is the measurement method?

Three more interlaboratory tests on safety of chemicals

29-Nov-2016 - The causes of accidents can be diverse, whether it is an explosion in a chemical plant or a fire on a dangerous goods freighter. Prevention starts in the laboratory where chemicals are tested for their hazardous properties. Safety experts, haulage contractors or traders must be able to rely on ...

First scientific method to authenticate world's costliest coffee

23-Aug-2013 - The world's most expensive coffee can cost $80 a cup, and scientists now are reporting development of the first way to verify authenticity of this crème de la crème, the beans of which come from the feces of a Southeast Asian animal called a palm civet. Their study appears in ACS' Journal of ...

Researchers find a stable way to store the sun's heat

Storing thermal energy in chemical could lead to advances in storage and portability

28-Oct-2010 - Researchers at MIT have revealed exactly how a molecule called fulvalene diruthenium, which was discovered in 1996, works to store and release heat on demand. This understanding, reported in a paper published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, should make it possible to find similar chemicals ...

PolyOne Suzhou Achieves ISO 13485 Certification for Healthcare Quality Management

04-Aug-2010 - PolyOne Corporation announced that its Suzhou facility recently received ISO 13485 certification for the healthcare market. This internationally recognized quality standard is tailored to organizations that manufacture medical devices, and specifies requirements for a comprehensive quality ...

Testing predictions in electrochemical nanosystems

From theoretical insights to the lab bench

09-Jun-2010 - Physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are gearing up for experimental tests of findings they arrived at through theoretical considerations: that electrochemical reactions take place more rapidly on isolated, nanometer-scale electrodes than on their familiar macroscopic ...

University of Oklahoma 'clean energy' technology promises gains in efficiency

Phononic devices continues development and commercialization with ARPA-E grant

19-Feb-2010 - A "clean energy" technology under development at the University of Oklahoma promises transformational advances with products that convert heat directly to useful electrical power. "OU has one of the few research groups in the world with the expertise to develop the new semi-conductor materials ...

National Physical Laboratory to Evaluate NanoSight

17-Mar-2009 - The UK’s national metrology institute, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), is commencing a one-year evaluation program of NanoSight’s nanoparticle characterization technology, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA). The program takes the form of a Joint Industry Project, funded in part by ...

Air Liquide signs contract for new technological steps in oxy-combustion

12-Dec-2008 - Air Liquide has signed in Queensland, Australia, a contract to provide an Air Separation Unit (ASU) and a CO2 Cryogenic Purification Unit. Oxy-combustion is a promising solution for reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industries including coal-fired power plants, blast furnaces and cement plants. ...