Ultrasound is used to carve carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to release toxic metal impurities in a similar way to wind carving the sand hills in a desert

BASF, Cargill and Novozymes jointly develop industrial biotechnology-based production process for acrylic acid from renewable raw materials

(Bio)Materials rich in amine groups are proposed as an ideal support for recovering Pd from waste

Harvard remains the number one in the world for the tenth year; five Chinese universities move into the Top 500 for the first time

The conceptual optimal design for the production of biodiesel using bioethanol within the context of a biorefinery is investigated

Selective transesterification of diethyl oxalate with phenol to diphenyl oxalate in the liquid phase over efficient solid-acid sol–gel catalysts

Empirical evidence that anthropogenic climate change increases the emergence of disease through its impact on resident bacterial communities

Professor Masayoshi Watanabe, Yokohama National University, Japan, on protic and solvate ionic liquids and their promising applications

Rafael Luque, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain, shares his experiences and benefits of using social media in sciences

Carbon dioxide acts as both reactant and extractive phase in the continuous hydrogenation of CO2 to pure formic acid