Highlights from ChemPubSoc Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Most Accessed Articles: December 2019

Improving the Quality of Drinking Water Throughout Europe
ECHA will compile a list of substances that can be safely used in materials that come into contact with drinking water

Comparing Biogas Digesters
Underground digester leads to higher and more stable temperature profiles for biogas production

Linde/BASF Cooperation Wins ICIS Award
Innovation award honors new catalyst and steam-reforming process which reduces CO2 emissions

Skin Microbiome as Source for Skin Care Products
Bayer and Azitra to collaborate in the identification and characterization of skin microbiome bacteria

First Commercial Cellulose Ethanol Plant in China
Clariant and Anhui Guozhen and Chemtex announce license agreement on sunliquid® cellulosic ethanol technology in China

First Female DFG President
Professor Katja Becker, Justus Liebig University Gießen, elected President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

New SCI President
The new President of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) is Professor Gaetano Guerra, University of Salerno

New GDCh President
Professor Peter Schreiner, University of Gießen, has been elected President of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

New President of the Slovak Chemical Society
Dr. Monika Jerigova, Bratislava, has been elected President of the Slovak Chemical Society (SCHS, Slovenská chemická spoločnosť)