Slide Rules at Dawn
IChemE members Sanjoy Sen and Mick Lee go head-to-head in a fight for survival on UK television
Features
South Australia to host world-scale solar thermal plant
Energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approval for its 150...
Industry X.0 – The Next Stage
What’s coming, and why the process industries will have to be more nimble. Simon Coombs, Managing...
Solar-Powered Water Purification Wins Top Prize
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Making connections
Helen Tunnicliffe visits the 2017 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) conference to find out the latest i...
Surviving the storm
Joan Cordiner, Technical and Change Manager, Syngenta Houston speaks to Helen Tunnicliffe
Gassnova’s Trude Sundset on the importance of CCS
Trude Sundset, CEO of Gassnova and a chemical engineer by training, tells Helen Tunnicliffe why c...
CCS: Why bother?
Carbon capture and storage costs money, so why bother? On the CCS Safari, Helen Tunnicliffe found...
CCS: Carbon Capture and Strategy
Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in Norway to learn about a government-backed scheme to set up ...
Turning Ocean Trash into Cash
Project turns plastic waste in the sea into vehicle fuels
Spirited Away
From studying undergraduate biochemical engineering at UCL, to distilling gin in Finland
A Concentrated Effort
A collaborative project is underway to develop technology and expertise in concentrated solar power.
Next-Level Separation
A discussion about the promise of 3D-printed membranes, and the research efforts underway that ai...
IChemE launches The Silver Book
ICHEME has launched a completely new model form of contract book, Professional Services Contract ...
Continuous Collaboration
The Chemical Engineer visits the EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub in Continuous Manufactur...
Snapshot - Industrial Scars
Striking aerial photographs capture the devastation caused by industrial processes’
Sustainability, Efficiency Win at 2016 Awards
Johnson Matthew takes home top prize; Sime Darby, PETRONAS and the National University of Singapo...
Not a disaster movie?
The Chemical Engineer visits the cinema to see how Hollywood tackles the subject of the Deepwater...
Not Just a Pretty Smell
Matthew Styles and Marc Hutchby discuss using biotechnology to make terpenes, and turning them in...
Whatever floats your boat
How a new process to recycle carbon fibre composites led to a race-ready kayak
North Sea Success
PREDICTIONS about the downfall of the UK oil and gas industry have abounded in recent years, as e...
CCS: Time to Invest
After ten years of promoting carbon capture and storage in the UK, the technology is still in 'su...
Archaeological Engineering
WE ALL know that chemical engineering is the “boundaryless profession”. Our industry improves pro...
Let it Rain
Research is underway to enhance cloud seeding - in a bid to boost freshwater supplies
Three Problems and the Nanoscale Solution
Functional nanomaterials could tackle some of the world’s biggest problems
Visions of the Future
Mountains or Oceans: how Shell uses scenarios to assess the company’s strategies for the future
News
Chemical engineers to do battle in UK television quiz
TWO Chartered Members of IChemE, Sanjoy Sen and Mick Lee, will clash on Monday night on UK televi...
Syngenta becomes Silver Corporate Partner
THE UK arm of global agribusiness company Syngenta has been awarded Silver Corporate Partner stat...
Five people missing after Oklahoma rig explosion
FIVE people are missing after an oil and gas drilling rig near Quinton in Oklahoma, US, exploded ...
Saudi Aramco, CB&I and Chevron Lummus Global in new JDA
SAUDI ARAMCO, CB&I and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) have signed a joint development agreement (JDA...
UK council gets £6.5m funding for mine water energy scheme
BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL in Wales, UK, has been awarded £6.5m (US$9.1m) in funding by the ...
Shell and ITM to build world’s largest electrolysis plant
SHELL and ITM Power have announced a plan to build the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plan...
Dell turns e-waste gold into jewellery and new boards
COMPUTER technology giant Dell has partnered with Texas recycling company Wistron GreenTech and a...
UK launches 25-year plastic waste plan
THE UK government has launched a 25-year plan to protect the environment and reduce “avoidable” p...
Aurora solar thermal plant approved in South Australia
GLOBAL solar energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approva...
GFG Alliance buys Europe’s largest aluminium smelter
GFG ALLIANCE, the UK-based metals, mining and energy group owned by Sanjeev Gupta, has bought Eur...
New York City sues five oil majors over climate change
NEW YORK CITY has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest investor-owned fossil fuel ...
UCL, Tufts find new catalyst to turn shale gas into fuel
A NEW platinum and copper alloy catalyst developed at University College London, UK, and Tufts Un...
Air Products buys Shell’s coal gasification business
AIR PRODUCTS has agreed a deal to buy Shell’s coal gasification technology business and its paten...
Catalyst turns nitrate pollution into water and N2
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed a nanoparticle catalyst that converts hazardou...
New safety video from CSB highlights tank fill dangers
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video about a 2016 incident in Kansa...
Improved chemical looping process for greener fossil fuels
ENGINEERS at Ohio State University, US, are developing a chemical looping process which can creat...
Brookfield to buy Westinghouse for US$4.6bn
PRIVATE equity firm Brookfield Business Partners has bought troubled nuclear firm Westinghouse El...
Cheap paper sensor detects water impurities
A MULTIDISCIPINARY research team from the University of Bath, UK, has developed a cheap, sustaina...
Dominion Energy and SCANA merge in US$14.6bn deal
DOMINION ENERGY and fellow energy corporation SCANA have announced that they are to combine in an...
Sinopec to upgrade Iran’s Abadan refinery
SINOPEC ENGINEERING has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to upgrad...
New Year’s OBE for Higgins
STAN HIGGINS, an Associate Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded an OBE in the UK’s New Year’s Honou...
That’s it for 2017!
THE IChemE UK headquarters close for the Christmas and New Year holiday at 16:00 GMT on 22 Decemb...
Roche buys Ignyta for US$1.7bn
ROCHE has agreed a deal to buy oncology drug company Ignyta for US$27/share, a total of US$1.7bn.
Eni and Shell to face Nigeria bribery charges
AN Italian judge has ruled that Shell and Eni must face charges of aggravated international corru...
French bill banning fossil fuel exploration passes in parliament
A BILL banning new fossil fuel exploration licences in France immediately and all fossil fuel ext...
MIT turns living plants into desk lamps
CHEMICAL ENGINEERS at MIT have engineered a living plant to emit green light, with the eventual h...
Celtic Renewables to build whisky biofuels plant
INNOVATIVE UK biofuel company Celtic Renewables is to build its first commercial demonstration pl...
Statoil buys 25% of Brazil’s Roncador field
STATOIL has bought a 25% stake in Petrobras’ Roncador oil field in the Campos Basin in Brazil.
Elsevier launches early stage research network
ELSEVIER, the publisher of IChemE’s journals, has launched a new early stage research network ded...
Teva to cut 14,000 jobs worldwide
TEVA PHARAMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES is to cut 14,000 jobs, more than a quarter of its workforce, as p...
University of Leeds team wins Water SIG prize
A TEAM from the University of Leeds has won the inaugural Young Process Engineer Prize set up by ...
World Bank to stop lending to oil and gas
WORLD BANK GROUP president Jim Yong Kim has announced that the organisation will no longer financ...
Fluor pilot plant opens at the University of Surrey
THE Fluor Pilot Plant at the University of Surrey UK, designed to give chemical engineering stude...
One dead, 21 injured in Austrian gas hub explosion
ONE person has been killed and 21 are injured after a huge explosion and fire at the Baumgarten N...
Fraunhofer creates spherical probes for bioreactor optimisation
RESEARCHERS at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nanosystems (ENAS) have developed mo...
INEOS shuts Forties pipeline
INEOS has closed its Forties oil pipeline, which transports 40% of the UK’s oil production, aroun...
Princeton creates instant hydrogel from spaghetti-like fibres
RESEARCHERS at Princeton University have discovered a way to make hydrogel in an instant and chem...
New zeolite separates ethane from ethylene
A NEW zeolite that can separate ethane from ethylene could “significantly” reduce the amount of e...
BASF and LetterOne to merge oil and gas units
BASF and LetterOne have signed a letter of intent to merge their oil and gas subsidiaries, Winter...
Evonik sets up first Asia research hub
EVONIK is to build its first Asian research hub in Singapore, with a specific focus on functional...
US$4.2bn Bahrain refinery expansion contract awarded
BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY (Bapco) has awarded a US$2.4bn expansion contract for its Sitra oil ref...
Nanogirl and Transpower CEO top Chemeca 2018 bill
MICHELLE “NANOGIRL” DICKINSON from the University of Auckland and Transpower CEO Alison Andrew wi...
CSB’s Sutherland to give fourth Kletz Lecture
VANESSA SUTHERLAND, chair and CEO of the US Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board (CSB)...
People should stay in their homes after a nuclear accident
MASS relocation of residents following a major nuclear accident is largely unnecessary, according...
Warwickshire to host £80m UK battery research centre
UK BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that Coventry and Warwickshire will host the UK’s ...
Maersk Oil gets approval for US$3.36bn Tyra gas investment
THE Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) has approved a DKK21bn (US$3.36bn) investment, allowing M...
Norway offers some help to CCS projects
AFTER dealing a huge budget blow to its full-chain CCS project, the Norwegian government has anno...
Japan chemical factory blast kills one man, wounds 11
ONE man has been killed and another 11 injured in an explosion and subsequent fire at the Arakawa...
IChemE Fellow Hapgood made dean at Deakin
ICHEME Fellow Karen Hapgood has been appointed executive dean of the faculty of science, engineer...
Energy majors commit to reducing methane emissions
EIGHT global energy majors have committed to reducing methane emissions from their natural gas as...
‘Grave strategic errors’ in Hinkley Point C deal
THE UK government made “grave strategic errors” in its approach to Hinkley Point C, the UK’s firs...
De Rivaz: Diversity, collaboration and adaptation vital for engineering
THE engineering profession will need to adapt to an ever-changing world in the coming years, and ...
Mystery ruthenium-106 cloud over Europe
ROSATOM, the Russian state nuclear company, has denied that a radioactive cloud of ruthenium-106 ...
New theory could re-write Chernobyl history
RESEARCHERS in Sweden have published new analysis of the Chernobyl disaster which suggests that t...
Cost-effective ‘supercatalyst’ recycles CO2 and CH4
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of Surrey, UK have developed a cost-effective ‘supercatalyst...
Stored heat from the sun can provide energy on demand
ENGINEERS at MIT, US, have developed a chemical composite that can store heat from the sun during...
Global Status of CCS report warns ‘more to be done’
THE Global CCS Institute says that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to meeting the Paris...
Biggs appointed senior deputy vice-chancellor of UWA
SIMON BIGGS, currently the executive dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Informa...
Solar Impulse wants 1,000 climate change solutions
THE Solar Impulse Foundation has established a new alliance, which plans to find 1,000 profitabl...
New graphene oxide membrane filters organics
GRAPHENE OXIDE membranes were once thought to be permeable only to aqueous solutions, but researc...
Bechtel signs US$15.2bn in LNG contracts with Tellurian
TELLURIAN has awarded four contracts worth US$15.2bn to Bechtel for the engineering, procurement ...
COP23: Evidence-based climate change solutions needed
SPEAKERS at an IChemE-hosted event at the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, ha...
Shell sells further stake in Woodside for US$1.7bn
Shell has sold two-thirds of its remaining stake in Woodside Petroleum to two unnamed investment ...
Patrick Vallance is named UK chief scientific adviser
THE UK government has announced that it has appointed Patrick Vallance as its chief scientific ad...
Air Products and Yankuang to build US$3.5bn syngas plant
AIR PRODUCTS has signed an investment cooperation agreement with Yankuang Group to build a US$3.5...
Alaska and China sign LNG development deal
ALASKA and China have signed an historic joint development agreement for the Alaska LNG project, ...
Total buys Engie upstream LNG for US$1.49bn
TOTAL has bought Engie’s upstream liquefied natural gas assets for US$1.49bn.
Bioinspired polymers self-assemble like proteins
RESEARCHERS in the US have worked out how to make polymer chains self-assemble into a desired str...
GHD is new Bronze Corporate Partner
PROFESSIONAL services company GHD has been awarded Bronze Corporate Partner status by IChemE.
NUS, NTU and ExxonMobil set up Singapore Energy Centre
THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have signed...
New magnesium process cuts energy use by 60%
A SPINOUT from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) has developed a process to extract...
Solar-powered water purification wins top IChemE Award
DESOLENATOR, a company making solar-powered water purification devices, has won the overall Outst...
India power station blast kills 26, injures 80
AN explosion at the Unchahar power station in Utter Pradesh, India has killed 26 people and injur...
2D materials with ‘smallest possible’ holes sieve salt from seawater
RESEARCHERS at the University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) have assembled me...
OGCI selects first three green investment projects
THE OIL AND GAS CLIMATE INITIATIVE (OGCI) has selected the first three low carbon projects to ben...
Novel coating turns windows into radiators
MUCH of the heat loss from buildings is through the windows, but researchers in Sweden have devel...
Tetra4 to become first South African LNG producer
ALTERNATIVE and renewable energy firm Renergen says that its gas production subsidiary Tetra4 is ...
Rice solves mystery of asphaltene clearance in oil pipes
ASPHALTENE, the cholesterol of the oil industry, clogs pipelines and interrupts flow, but dispers...
Norway cuts budget for full-chain CCS project by 94%
THE Norwegian government has, in its 2018 budget, proposed cutting the funding for its flagship f...
Winners announced at eighth IChemE Singapore Awards
THE National University of Singapore (NUS), Shell and Croda were amongst the winners at the eight...
PETRONAS wins big at IChemE Malaysia Awards
MALAYSIAN oil and gas giant PETRONAS won three of the seven prestigious IChemE Malaysia Awards at...
Wood Group wins contract for offshore LNG platform
HONGHUA GROUP has awarded Wood Group the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for its...
14 partners join CO2-to-plastic consortium
COVESTRO is leading a consortium of 14 European partners from seven countries in a new project to...
IChemE appoints Mangkusasono as Oman ambassador
ICHEME has appointed Henry Mangkusasono, technical safety engineer at Petroleum Development Oman ...
One missing after Louisiana rig explosion
A WORKER is missing and five have been taken to hospital in Louisiana, US, after an oil platform ...
Arup: Organic waste could be used in construction
A NEW report from engineering major Arup says that organic waste such as that from bananas, potat...
Climeworks opens direct air capture plant in Iceland
CLIMEWORKS has opened a new plant in collaboration with Reykjavik Energy in Iceland to capture CO...
Evonik develops new process for MMA
EVONIK has developed a more efficient process to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA), a widely-used...
WorleyParsons buys Amec Foster Wheeler North Sea oil
WORLEYPARSONS has bought Amec Foster Wheeler’s North Sea upstream oil and gas business for a tota...
IChemE Member Madeleine Jones wins Karen Burt Award
MADELEINE JONES, a Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Ka...
East coast CCS could be worth £163bn to UK economy
A CCS network on the UK east coast could boost the national economy by £163bn (US$210bn) by 2060 ...
Statoil, Shell and Total in Norwegian CCS partnership
STATOIL, Shell and Total have signed a partnership to further develop CO2 storage on the Norwegia...
Chemical engineer Wirth to be CEO of Chevron
MICHAEL WIRTH, currently Chevron vice chairman and executive vice president of midstream and deve...
DONG Energy to rename itself Ørsted
DONG ENERGY, formerly Danish Oil and Natural Gas, will become Ørsted on 6 November 2017, as it se...
Petronas Chemicals, Saudi Aramco in polymers JV
PETRONAS CHEMICALS GROUP has sold a 50% stake in its PRPC Polymers subsidiary to Saudi Aramco for...
Vapour jet printing personalised medicines
RESEARCHERS at the University of Michigan have developed vapour jet printing technology, usually ...
Lund team turns chicken feathers into food
MILLIONS of tons of chicken feathers are wasted every year, but researchers at Lund University in...
2018 Year of Engineering to boost STEM uptake in UK
THE UK government has launched a new initiative to boost the uptake of science, technology, engin...
Thyssenkrupp and Tata announce merger plans
STEEL majors Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding to merge their...
Two injured in Nottingham gas explosion
TWO men have been seriously injured in a gas explosion at the Colwick Industrial Estate in Nottin...
IgNobels reward coffee fluid dynamics and liquid cats
THE IgNobel Awards, celebrating the weirdest of weird science, have this year been awarded to suc...
Caterpillars might not break down plastic after all
RESEARCHERS in Germany say that research earlier this year showing that waxworms can chemically b...
Shott: UK chemical industry should focus on strengths
FORMER IChemE president Ian Shott says that the huge UK chemical industry must focus on its stren...
University of Hull gains IChemE accreditation
THE University of Hull has gained IChemE international accreditation for its chemical engineering...
DowDuPont revises split plans following merger
DOWDUPONT has revised its plans to split into three divisions following its merger and will chang...
Bunge buys 70% of IOI Loders Croklaan for US$946m
AGRIBUSINESS and food giant Bunge has bought a 70% controlling stake in IOI Loders Croklaan from ...
BP and Bridas form JV for Argentinean assets
BP AND Bridas Corporation have formed a joint venture combining their interests in Pan America En...
£1m project to field-test graphene water filters
UK-BASED G2O Water Technologies is to scale up production and field-test its patented graphene ox...
Singapore launches Tech Access Initiative
SINGAPORE’S senior minister of state for trade and industry, Koh Poh Koon, has launched the count...
Acorn CCS gets £100,000 Scottish government funding
THE Acorn CCS project, a full-chain CCS project in northeast Scotland, UK, has been awarded £100,...
RAEng: Culture change needed for inclusion
THE engineering profession needs a widespread culture change to improve inclusion in the workplac...
Three IChemE Fellows elected RAEng Fellows
THREE IChemE Fellows, Joan Cordiner, Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Dame Angela Strank have been electe...
GFG Alliance to invest US$1bn in Arrium
GFG ALLIANCE has completed its acquisition of Australian metals and mining business Arrium, and w...
DNV GL: Energy demand will plateau in 2030
RISK MANAGEMENT firm DNV GL predicts that global energy demand will peak in 2025 and plateau afte...
Tarmac becomes Bronze Corporate Partner
BUILDING materials and construction firm Tarmac has been made an IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner.
Safety concerns raised about Arkema Crosby
ARKEMA’S organic peroxide plant in Crosby, which has already suffered reported explosions and a s...
Bio-compatible ion current battery created
ENGINEERS in the US have developed a new form of battery which works on the basis of flowing ions...
NNPC signs JV deals with Chevron, Shell
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has signed financing agreements with its joint...
Jacobs buys CH2M for US$3.27bn
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP has bought CH2M HILL for a total of US$3.27bn, including net debt, creat...
IChemE begins governance member consultation
ICHEME has begun a member consultation period on the future of the Institution’s governance and i...
US nuclear plants abandoned
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS (SCE&G) and Santee Cooper have abandoned construction of two nuclea...
Shell plans to cut 400 jobs in the Netherlands
ROYAL Dutch Shell is to shift its business model in response to lower oil prices, according to Re...
Amec Foster Wheeler leads new nuclear project
THE UK government has appointed Amec Foster Wheeler to lead a new £2.9m (US$3.8m) nuclear researc...
Shell shuts down ‘most’ of Pernis refinery
SHELL says that its Pernis refinery in Rotterdam in the Netherlands is not expected to restart op...
Hackitt to lead major UK fire safety review
FORMER IChemE president Dame Judith Hackitt is to lead a major independent inquiry into fire safe...
Light-activated catalyst turns CO2 to CO
RESEARCHERS at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have developed a “spongy” nickel-b...
BASF to set up 3D printing company
BASF is to establish a new group company to develop and expand 3D printing materials, systems, co...
Shell prepared for continued low oil price
SHELL CEO Ben van Beurden says that the company is adopting a “lower forever” mindset as it seeks...
Wessex Water and Bath trial algae treatment
WESSEX WATER and the University of Bath, UK, are trialling the use of algae farms to reduce the n...
Turning dirty foil into useful catalysts
CONTAMINATED foil is unrecyclable as grease and fats damage recycling equipment, so it is often l...
PETRONAS cancels Pacific NorthWest LNG
PETRONAS and its project partners have decided to cancel the vast US$28bn Pacific NorthWest LNG p...
Protein made using CO2 and electricity
RESEARCHERS in Finland have successfully produced a batch of single-cell protein using electricit...
Bismuth could replace lead in solar cells
BISMUTH could offer a non-toxic alternative to lead in next-generation perovskite solar cells, ac...
Floating cellulose gel cleans up oil spills
A NEW type of cellulose composite material which can turn spilled oil into a rigid floating gel t...
Chris Barrie to host IChemE Awards again
UK ACTOR and comedian Chris Barrie is set to host the 2017 IChemE Global Awards on 2 November, th...
New project to tackle surface corrosion
A NEW £5m (US$6.5m) project led by BP and the University of Manchester, UK, will seek to better u...
GSK to sell Horlicks, shut Slough site
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK) is to sell its Horlicks drinks brand in the UK and shut its Slough manufact...
Very strong plant-inspired graphene aerogel
A NEW form of graphene aerogel, inspired by the structure of a plant stem, is exceptionally stron...
New guidelines to boost UKCS production
OIL & GAS UK has launched new guidelines aimed at increasing oil and gas production efficiency on...
RAEng report calls for waste-based biofuels
BIOFUELS should be made from waste and byproducts, not food crops, if their carbon emissions redu...
Siemens and AES launch energy storage JV
SIEMENS and AES Corporation have set up a new global joint venture, Fluence, to offer energy stor...
New way to clean water in developing world
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY team at the University of Bath, UK, is developing a new portable, cheap and e...
Vattenfall plans gas power station H2 switch
VATTENFALL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Statoil and Gasunie to investigate conve...
Engineering Council launches new strategy
THE Engineering Council, the UK regulatory body for engineering, has launched a new strategic pla...
Norilsk Nickel mine explosion kills four
AN explosion at Norilsk Nickel’s Zapolyarny mine in the far north of Russia has killed four people.
Qatar to boost LNG production by 30%
QATAR PETROLEUM has announced that it will ramp up its LNG production by 30% over the next five t...
Gazprom Neft and Repsol form Russian JV
RUSSIAN oil firm Gazprom Neft has formed a joint venture with Spain’s Repsol, taking a 25.02% sta...
Total signs contract with NIOC for South Pars
TOTAL has signed a contract with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), to develop phase 11 of ...
Jacobs Douwe Egberts is new Corporate Partner
JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) in Banbury, UK, has been made an IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner.
Method makes olefins under mild conditions
CHEMISTS in the US and South Korea have developed a technique to produce olefins, a vital chemica...
Dichloromethane may slow ozone recovery
DICHLOROMETHANE, an unregulated chemical known to deplete the ozone layer, could delay the recove...
IChemE’s PSEP impact factor up 40%
PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (PSEP) now has the highest impact factor ever held by...
Funding to extract rare earths from coal
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded US$1m in funding to Penn State University and its i...
Shell partners SBI for drop-in biofuels
SBI BIOENERGY has granted exclusive development and licensing rights for its drop-in biofuels tec...
UK government commits funding to fusion
THE UK government has committed to funding the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion energy research ...
New MOF turns CO2 into methane
A NEW metal-organic framework developed at the University of Adelaide, Australia, can convert CO2...
Making polycarbonate from sugar and CO2
CHEMISTS at the University of Bath, UK, have developed a process to create polycarbonate plastic ...
Vaccines in silica need no refrigeration
Could allow more widespread vaccination programmes
