Bayer MaterialScience plans to invest EUR 110 million to build five new downstream facilities in China by 2012

Chinese Polycarbonate Production Growing

Joint Bioprocess Engineering: TU Dresden & Bosch
The TU Dresden, Germany, and Bosch extend their cooperation to bioprocess engineering

B. Z. Shakhashiri Voted ACS President
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, voted 2011 ACS President

Pfizer Launches Academic Network
Network with around eight partners from the US, Europe, Asia/Australia focussing on developing biologics-based drugs planned

More Battery Materials
BASF: new production facility for cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries in Elyria, USA

Cloaking Device
Making the passage of time invisible (and the illusion of a Star Trek transporter)

Infrared Security
Chemicals hidden in clothes detected with near-IR spectroscopy by British chemists; might improve security screening

Angewandte Chemie 47/2010: Radically New
An overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Novel Hybrid Fuel Cell Design
Synthesized anion-conducting polymers characterized on hybrid polymer electrolyte fuel cell with acidic anode/membrane & alkaline cathode

New Detection of Nuclear Material
Scheme for detecting a concealed source of radioactive material without searching shipping containers one by one proposed