Category: Chemistry

Lonza Names New Leader in Research and Technology

Jordan Petkov, Ph.D., has joined Lonza Consumer Care as global head of research and technology for its personal care and hygiene businesses. Based in Blackley , Dr. Petkov provides technical support for Lonza’s portfolio of hygiene, preservation, hair and skin care products.

Exploring Titan with Balloons and Landers

Last week – from Monday, February 27th to Wednesday, March 1st – NASA hosted the ” Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop ” at their headquarters in Washington, DC. In the course of the many presentations, speeches and panel discussions, NASA’s shared its many plans for the future of space exploration with the international community.

New Materials Could Turn Water into the Fuel of the Future

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology have-in just two years-nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential for use in solar fuels. They did so by developing a process that promises to speed the discovery of commercially viable generation of solar fuels that could replace coal, oil, and other fossil fuels.

Southern Research Project Advances Novel CO2 Utilization Strategy

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has awarded Southern Research nearly $800,000 for a project that targets a more cost-efficient and environmentally friendly method of producing some of the most important chemicals used in manufacturing. Southern Research is developing a novel nano-engineered catalyst-driven process for the production of light olefins, such as ethylene and propylene, using carbon dioxide, or CO2, from coal-fired flue gas and lower alkanes derived from shale gas as feedstocks.

Architectural Coatings Trends and T…

“Necessity is the mother of invention” drives technology development in many markets, and is especially true in architectural coatings. Increasingly strict regulations regarding the environment, people’s health and sustainability have accelerated and driven innovation.

The revolutionary test for alien life

A simple chemistry test could soon answer one of humanity’s most basic questions – does life exist on other planets? NASA has revealed a new test it says is 10,000 more sensitive than current methods employed by spacecraft like NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover. Mono Lake, California, with salt pillars known as ‘tufas’ visible.

India headed for a green energy revolution: Harvard scientist

Kolkata, Jan 22 – Harvard chemist and energy innovator Daniel G. Nocera is a man on a renewable mission. The inventor of the artificial leaf and co-creator of its bionic version plans to launch a pilot of the advanced technology in India with the assertion that a renewable energy revolution will take place in the country.

Nanoscience expert receives 2016 Dickson Prize in Science

Chad A. Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, has been awarded the 2016 Dickson Prize in Science. The prize is awarded annually by Carnegie Mellon University to an individual in the U.S. who has made outstanding contributions to science.

Ion exchange technique (IET) to characterise Ag + exposure in soil…

Dina Schwertfeger A , Jessica Velicogna A , Alexander Jesmer A , Heather McShane B , Richard Scroggins A and Juliska Princz A C B Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, 21 111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte Anne de Bellevue, QuA bec, H9X 3V9, Canada. Environmental Chemistry – http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/EN16136 Submitted: 30 July 2016 Accepted: 21 November 2016 Published online: 11 January 2017 Environmental context.

The meteorite that still is fascinating scientists

It may be nearly half a century since the Murchison meteorite fell over the small town in northern Victoria, but it continues to dazzle scientists around the world. Cattle were scared but fortunately no-one was injured when the meteorite broke up and landed over a 13 square kilometre area in the farming district on September 28, 1969.

Scientists develop new ultrasound technique to ‘see’ inside live cells

Researchers have developed a new technique that uses sound rather than light to see inside live cells, an advance that may have potential applications in stem-cell transplants and cancer diagnosis. The technique uses shorter-than-optical wavelengths of sound and could even rival the optical super-resolution techniques which won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, researchers said.