Li-EcoSafe – German centre of excellence for battery research established

Better Batteries for Electric Vehicles

Carbon Fibers by Thermally Latent Catalysts
Grubbs–Hoveyda-type catalysts in ring-opening polymerization are a step towards the industrial application of carbon fibers

75th Anniversary: Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized November 16, 1938, by Albert Hofmann

New Synthetic Rubber Plant in Indonesia
Chandra Asri and Michelin collaborate on a new synthetic rubber manufacturing plant

Breakthrough for Marine Energy
The power plant Deep Green works cost-effectively in low velocity tidal and ocean currents

BASF-DECHEMA Alwin Mittasch Special Prize
Professor Pierre Jacobs, KU Leuven, Belgium, was awarded the BASF-DECHEMA Alwin Mittasch Special Prize

Are We Refereeing Ourselves to Death? The Peer-Review System at Its Limit
As François Diederich's term of Chairman of the board of Angewandte Chemie comes to an end, he reflects on the peer-review system

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2014
The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation invites nominations for the Heinrich Wieland Prize (News by Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation)

R&D Center of BASF in Korea
BASF to set up Electronic Materials R&D Center Asia Pacific at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea

Asia’s Largest Biomass Plant
GS E&C, South Korea, has chosen Metso, Finland, to supply automation for the Dangjin 4 Biomass Power Plant