New catalyst could reduce waste in the large-scale manufacturing of Plexiglas

New Catalyst for Methyl Methacrylate Process

Ranking of Worldwide Research Institutions
The Scimago Institutions Ranking, the SIR World Reports 2012, is the most comprehensive ranking of Worldwide Research Institutions

Reducing Carbon Nanotube Toxicity
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

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

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

University World Ranking 2012
Harvard remains the number one in the world for the tenth year; five Chinese universities move into the Top 500 for the first time

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

New Sol–Gel Technique for the Synthesis of MoxTi Catalysts
Selective transesterification of diethyl oxalate with phenol to diphenyl oxalate in the liquid phase over efficient solid-acid sol–gel catalysts

Climatic Change Causes Bacteria Outbreak
Empirical evidence that anthropogenic climate change increases the emergence of disease through its impact on resident bacterial communities

Border Between Ionic Liquids and Electrolyte Solutions
Professor Masayoshi Watanabe, Yokohama National University, Japan, on protic and solvate ionic liquids and their promising applications