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Lets raise a glass and celebrate -
A German scientist whose studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces have affected fields as diverse as agriculture, manufacturing and climatology won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry yesterday. |
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Friday 12 October, 2007 04:01 PM |
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Another first for China - this has got to be a good thing - keep the improvements coming China's BlueStar Group announced on Monday that it has entirely eliminated toxic residues from chromium chemical production in a pioneering plant in central China. |
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Friday 12 October, 2007 02:03 AM |
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Always in the news this story is not "up in the air" - we might just "wing it" Boeing has delayed deliveries of its key 787 Dreamliner aircraft by six months because of a shortage of parts in what is a setback to its attempts to win back its position as the world's biggest planemaker.
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Thursday 11 October, 2007 01:12 PM |
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MUMBAI: Larsen & Toubro Ltd has received an engineering and procurement order worth $60 million from Saudi Arabia’s Methanol Chemical, or Chemanol, for setting up high technology methyl amines and dimethyl formamide plants.
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Wednesday 10 October, 2007 01:25 PM |
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What about on the end of my paint brush - that's pretty important to me ! Does paint still have the same glossy appearance after squeezing its way through all the pumps, pipelines and valves in the factory finish shops and finally reaching the component to which it is applied? A desk-sized miniaturized test facility can supply the answer.
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Monday 8 October, 2007 08:01 PM |
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Quick analysis is a pretty good feature - I can think of many industrial uses - where can I buy one -- Investigators on a crime scene can now use a new tool for collecting chemical or biological samples. |
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Monday 8 October, 2007 03:01 AM |
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Totally amazing - we have innovation coming thick and fast lets see where this goes what happens if it goes on, say a car Industrial Nanotech , Inc.based in Florida has announced it is now in the development stage of a thermal insulation material that will generate electricity. |
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Thursday 4 October, 2007 10:11 AM |
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Well the biggest paint business in the world - will be painting the town red after this is completed AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel NV said on Monday it expected its planned takeover of ICI to yield synergies of around 2.5 billion euros (1.74 billion pounds). |
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Wednesday 3 October, 2007 04:08 PM |
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Physicists at UC Riverside have created molecular positronium , an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of their antiparticles, called positrons.
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Monday 1 October, 2007 11:55 AM |
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sounds fascinating to me - just go, go, go A new strategy could make natural products more user-friendly for studies spanning drug discovery and chemical biology (J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/ja0733686). |
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Saturday 29 September, 2007 10:48 AM |
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sounds like cutting edge development work - just keep those "good vibrations" coming Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have transferred information between two “artificial atoms” by way of electronic vibrations on a microfabricated aluminum cable, demonstrating a new component for potential ultra-powerful quantum computers of the future
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Friday 28 September, 2007 02:30 PM |
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There are a lot of new cars coming onto the roads - good to see some cleaner burning fuel coming as well Multi-billion Dutch chemicals major DSM has offered India its technology to derive ethanol from cellulose. The company is also in talks with leading oil marketing companies such as RIL, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Indo Burma Petroleum (IBP) for commercial development of the technology. |
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Saturday 15 September, 2007 10:52 AM |
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FOR THE PAST CENTURY, the petri dish has been the best thing available to study cells and tissues outside the body. But cells in a petri dish inhabit an environment that looks nothing like their natural milieu. Engineers and physical scientists, in collaboration with biologists, are demonstrating that the channels and wells of microfluidic devices can mimic the chemistry and physics of biological systems in ways that reveal hitherto unknown biology. |
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Tuesday 11 September, 2007 01:36 PM |
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LAST YEAR, enough natural gas to supply 27% of U.S. needs was burned off as waste around the world, according to a new report by the World Bank. Flared natural gas is a by-product of petroleum production and is not generally considered worth capture and sale, the bank adds.
However, the bank estimates the gas could be worth as much as $40 billion if sold on the U.S. market, where natural gas demand is high because of its use as a chemical feedstock and fuel. |
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Tuesday 11 September, 2007 01:29 PM |
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Thailand's Indorama Polymers plans to build what it says will be North America's largest polyethylene terephthalate plant. Set to open in Decatur, Ala., in 2009, the $140 million facility will add 430,000 metric tons of annual capacity for the plastic to the growing U.S. market. |
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Thursday 30 August, 2007 02:00 AM |
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 27 -- GERMAN chemical maker LANXESS AG plans to achieve more of its China sales from domestically made products and may expand into the country's west, a senior board member said over the weekend. |
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 02:00 AM |
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Published: 17 Aug 07 - 9:32
Large-scale value-added local manufacture had been identified as a top priority for the next two years, President Thabo Mbeki said in his report-back to the media on the outcomes of the midyear Cabinet lekgotla. |
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Monday 20 August, 2007 02:00 AM |
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BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday resumed its anti-dumping tax on dichloromethane imported from the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and the Republic of Korea.
The measure would be in place for five years, said a ministry statement. |
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Saturday 18 August, 2007 09:49 AM |
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By applying a lot of pressure to a little germanium , C. Austen Angell of Arizona State University and an international team of collaborators have prepared the first monatomic metallic glass (Nature 2007, 448, 787). |
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Friday 17 August, 2007 12:17 PM |
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When John McAdam assumed the hotseat at ICI in April 2003 the company's shares were worth 104p. Yesterday the publicity-shy chief executive agreed to sell the chemicals and paints company for 670p a share.
To some, the deal was still a sell-out of a once-great British company. Some ruefully wondered whether, if British investors had only seen ICI's value more clearly, it might have been ICI swallowing Akzo Nobel. |
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Tuesday 14 August, 2007 01:02 PM |
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