Impressions of the 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Dallas

247th ACS Meeting

Recharge Your Cell Phone by Walking
Triboelectric nanogenerator developed to convert all kinds of mechanical energy that is wasted at the moment into electricity

New Source of Methionine
Evonik will build a plant for the production of a new source of methionine specially developed for shrimp and other crustaceans

Awareness-Rising on Safe Use of Chemicals
ECHA has expanded their web section "Chemicals in our Life" and launched a facebook account to reach the general public

New Novo Nordisk Purification Pilot Plant
Novo Nordisk invests in new purification pilot plant in Bagsværd, Denmark

2013 Trends in Chemistry
An overview of the latest trend reports published annually in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the GDCh magazine

BASF and Top Asian Universities Cooperate
Together with leading universities and institutes in China, Japan, and South Korea, BASF established a joint research network

New Technique to Study Biomass Pyrolysis
Spatiotemporally resolved diffuse reflectance in situ spectroscopy (STR-DRiSP) technique was used to determine kinetics of pyrolysis

Grinding to Graphene
Ball milling graphite oxide with tin gave a SnO2/graphene composite for lithium-ion battery anodes

Chemical Industry Manipulating US-EU Trade Negotiations
A critique of the proposal of the chemical industry's lobby for trans-Atlantic cooperation on chemicals