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- Biomass can be utilized for energy recovery
Sewage sludge, green waste, production residue from the food industry, straw or animal excrement - with the "biobattery's" modular concept a much larger range of biomass can be utilized for energy ... - Artificial catalysts imitate natural photo-synthesis
Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy (HZB) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, Austr... - Using ion chromatography to analyze sediment formation in heating oils
In a research study recently published, Kerkering und Andersson investigated the formation of sediments in various biogenic and fossil heating oils as well as blends of both over a storage period o... - Solving the structural paradigm of albicidin gives hope for new Antibiotics
A German-French research team solves the structural paradigm of albicidin - funding provided by the TU Excellence Cluster "UniCat", published in "Nature Biological Chemistry" After 30 years, sci... - Insight into the aggregation of xenon atoms
An international team of physicists has succeeded in mapping the condensation of individual atoms, or rather their transition from a gaseous state to another state, using a new method. Led by the S... - Insights into structural transformations explain difference of crystals behaviour during mechanical tension
Crystals are not as stationary as you might think. A crystal of an organometallic compound containing palladium, for example, downright jumps from a hotplate once it reaches certain temperature. An... - Elsevier adds Polymer Matrix Composites Database to Knovel
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced the launch of the Knovel Polymer Matrix Composites Database. The new database he... - Native architecture of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography
Photosynthesis sustains most of the life on our planet. It harvests energy from sunlight, while generating oxygen and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The process takes place in the chl... - New catalyst process uses light and not metal for rapid polymerization
A team of chemistry and materials science experts from University of California, Santa Barbara and The Dow Chemical Company has created a novel way to overcome one of the major hurdles preventing t... - Portable gas analyzer series from Horiba wins German Design Award 2015
The PG-300 series, a lineup of portable gas analyzers, won the German Design Award 2015, one of the most prestigious design awards in the world. Overview of the award-winning product seriesThe PG-3... - Fink Chem + Tec aquires K-engineering
With effect from 01.01.2015 the company K-engineering has been integrated into Fink Chem + Tec GmbH & Co. KG. Mr. Wolfgang Illgen, former owner of K-Engineering was added from that date as sharehol... - Making synthetic materials more impervious
Synthetic materials are convenient in many respects, but they have one disadvantage: they are permeable to gases. In order to make plastic more impervious, Ruhr-Universität engineers apply wafer-th... - Glass for battery electrodes
Today's lithium-ion batteries are good, but not good enough if our future energy system is to rely on electrical power. Chemists and materials scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a type of glas... - Beer, milk and other beverages in bacteria quick test
To guarantee a high quality of their beer, breweries monitor the production process very closely. With a new polymer powder, this monitoring will be able to be faster and simpler in the future. Man... - Sartorius to Sell Its Industrial Technologies Division
Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment provider, is selling its Industrial Technologies Division (Intec) to the Japanese Minebea Co., Ltd. and their partner, the... - Towards a better understanding of chemical reactions at interfaces
A team of German-American researchers has developed a new method enabling chemical processes at interfaces to be analyzed more precisely than has so far been possible. Standing Wave Ambient Pressur... - Ultrafast X-ray detector to observe chemical reactions successfully tested
Scientists from European XFEL successfully tested the first ultrafast X-ray detector to be used for experiments at the new research facility, which is currently under construction in the Hamburg ar... - Line dancing bacteria win the 2014 Dolomite and Lab on a Chip Video Competition
The inaugural MicroTAS Video Competition, run by microfluidics specialist Dolomite and Lab on a Chip, and supported by the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, saw first prize awarded to a... - Highly specific nanoparticles deliver active ingredients directly to targeted tissue
Jena scientists have been successful in producing highly specific nanoparticles. Depending on the bound dye the particles are guided to the liver or to the kidney and deliver their payload of acti... - Scientists create multifunctional nanotubes using nontoxic materials
A doctoral student in materials science is making multifunctional nanotubes of gold - with the help of vitamin C and other harmless substances. The technique works so well that the scientists now w...