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The RSC commits to 100% open access within five years
THE Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that it plans to make all of its fully RSC-owned journals open access within five years by seeking financial support from partners rather than making authors pay article processing charges (APCs).
Type: News
Safety: Chemical Accident Investigation
The UK needs its own ‘Chemical Safety Board’, says Keith Plumb
Type: Feature
Research community doubts UK’s 'science superpower' ambition as BEIS returns £1.6bn Horizon funding
THE UK’s research community is questioning government’s commitment to making the nation a “science superpower” after it was revealed that £1.6bn (US$1.9bn) earmarked to fund association with Europe’s Horizon programme had been returned to Treasury coffers.
Type: News
TAKING a step in developing a UK lithium supply chain, natural resources company Weardale Lithium has announced successful extraction of lithium carbonate from geothermal brines in County Durham. The company said it was the first time that lithium carbonate had been produced from geothermal brines in the North East of England.
Type: News
The importance of engineers and not strangling AI
SIR PATRICK VALLANCE reflects on five years as the UK’s chief scientific advisor.
Type: News
Researchers develop mussel-inspired coating that can extract rare earth elements
RESEARCHERS at Penn State University, US, have developed a mussel-inspired nanocellulose coating (MINC) that can extract neodymium – a critical element used in clean energy technologies – from secondary sources such as industrial wastewater without using a high amount of energy.
Type: News
Governments urged to do more as ambitious timeline for fusion set at FUSION24 conference
FUSION has garnered something of a reputation in the energy industry for always being 30 years away. However, scientists and engineers from around the world gathered at The Science Museum in London yesterday to be told of ambitious plans to get “fusion electrons on the grid by the 2030s”.
Type: News
Flixborough 50 Years On: Safety is a Team Sport
A massive gap that wasn’t filled, key players in the wrong positions and no one taking overall responsibility. Flixborough was an own goal waiting to happen, argues Trish Kerin
Type: Feature
£500m for Port Talbot electric arc furnace, with 2,500 jobs still set to go
THE UK government has agreed to give a £500m (US$651m) grant to Tata Steel to build an electric arc furnace at Port Talbot, though 2,500 jobs will still be lost as the firm presses ahead with plans to shut down the site’s only remaining blast furnace.
Type: News
Cemex to install world-first hydrogen process at UK cement plant
CEMEX is set to trial a process developed by Hiiroc that uses plasma to produce hydrogen for greener industrial heat at its cement plant in Rugby, UK.
Type: News
IChemE Matters – February 2025
Mark Apsey on making a difference and Duncan Lugton on policy
Type: News
Continue your CPD virtually with IChemE
IChemE has accelerated plans to offer many of its most popular training courses virtually in response to the outbreak of Covid-19. For those isolated at home, now might be an opportune time to boost skills and knowledge.
Type: Feature
Andy Brazier asks are you satisfied that everything ‘reasonably practicable’ has been done to reduce risk?
Type: Feature
IChemE begins governance member consultation
ICHEME has begun a member consultation period on the future of the Institution’s governance and is inviting all members to share their views.
Type: News
HYDROGEL fibres similar to spider silk have been spun at room temperature, and researchers say it could offer a sustainable low-energy alternative to current manufacturing methods.
Type: News
Chemical engineers at World Engineers Summit
ENERGY issues in South East Asia and ways to implement climate change mitigation innovations were the focus of an IChemE workshop at the World Engineers Summit, in Singapore yesterday.
Type: News
BIOCOMPATIBLE, biodegradable silk cocoons capable of being accurately spun on a nano-scale could be used to protect sensitive molecules, according to researchers.
Type: News
A SAFER, easier process to apply colour-changing conjugated polymer films to consumer goods such as window tints and rear-view mirrors has been developed.
Type: News
