Five young chemical engineers have been granted a Student Mobility Award from the European Federation of Chemical Engineering

Student Mobility Awards Presented

Solar-Driven Water-Splitting
Ta3N5 has been found to act as a photocatalyst for water oxidation under visible light

Ultrapure Ceramic Material
Extremely durable, high resistant, transparent ceramic developed

Phosphonous Acid Ligands
Steric and electronic properties of chlorophosphite ligands have been studied by using multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography

Stöber Method for Polymer Coating Core-Shell Nanoparticles
Modified emulsion polymerization gives excellent control of the shape and thickness of shells of core-shell nanoparticles

Bicycling the Square
An organic square can be converted to tiny bicyclic compound through an intramolecular rearrangement

Dieter Behrens Medal for S. Feyo de Azevedo
Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo, Portugal, at the 9th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE-9)

Catalyst Atoms in Nanowires
Silicon nanowires can be doped with surprisingly high amounts of aluminium during their growth

Organocatalytic Route to Active Pyrazoles
Regioselective synthesis of pyrazoles using a secondary amine organocatalyst

From Brimstone to Feedstock
The elemental sulfur byproduct of petroleum desulfurization could be a new feedstock material for copolymers in lithium-sulfur batteries