Trash bags Barrier films used in food packaging are difficult to recycle effectively, because they…
Silicon anodes are an attractive alternative to graphite anodes currently in use in lithium-ion batteries,…
Microbes inhabiting the extreme environments thousands of feet below the earth’s surface possess unique properties…
Soil bacteria that oxidize methane (methanotrophs) are important in capturing methane before it enters the…
A newly patented class of synthetic antimicrobial compounds is aimed at overcoming the limitations of…
A triple-layer, porous membrane system developed at the Functional Materials Laboratory at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule…
Chemists and engineers from the Performance Materials Segment of Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com)…
NTT Communications Corp. (NTT Com; www.ntt.com) and Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (both Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsuichem.com) have…
For petroleum refineries, the cost of converting hydrofluoric-acid-based alkylation units to the relatively safer sulfuric-acid-based…