Clariant and Wilmar’s Joint Venture for Global Amines, headquartered in Singapore, is now in operation

The Global Amines Company

2012 ISI Journal Impact Factors
Excellent Results for Wiley and Wiley-VCH in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports

Borealis Grows its Fertilizer Business
Borealis acquires GPN and the majority of the Rosier European market

3-Step Reaction Made On 3D Printed Reactor
Inexpensive reactor for a multi-step synthesis and purification with potential to rival other multi-step reactors like micro and millifluidic devices

Reuniting Chemical Disciplines, Separated at Birth
In the 19th Century, every chemist was a polymath. What changed? And how can we reunite the different chemical disciplines?

Fuel Cell Capacity and Cost Trends
Sales of fuels cells and hydrogen systems generated over $1 billion in 2012 and is forecast to increase

Chiral Column? Here’s One I Made Earlier
Continuous-flow Diels–Alder reactions with a homemade HPLC column give good selectivity for >150 h

Energy and GHG Reductions in the Chemical Industry via Catalytic Processes
New technological roasmap introduced by International Energy Agency (IEA), International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA), and DECHEMA

Crab Shells for Batteries
Successful use of crab shell nanochannel templates to construct hollow nanofiber electrodes for lithium ion batteries

Drinking Water from the Sea
Electrochemically mediated seawater desalination in microfluidic systems