Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, together with colleagues from Freie Universität Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, have developed a synthetic fibre system inspired by the cellular cytoskeleton that protects itself through controlled bundling. The findings open u...

With an annual production of around one million metric tons, formic acid is one of the most important basic chemicals and is used, among other things, as an additive in the animal feed industry. It is also increasingly attracting attention as an H2 carrier. To date, its production has relied on foss...

As regulators worldwide move to restrict PFAS, the synthetic "forever chemicals" long used in waterproof textiles, Niber Technologies is advancing a PFAS-free electrospun nanofiber membrane platform built to meet that shift without compromising performance. A Global Shift Away from PFAS PFAS do not ...

Award recognises holistic approach to sustainability – TechnoCompound ranks among the top 3 per cent in its sector. On its first certification, TechnoCompound was immediately awarded the Silver medal by EcoVadis and only narrowly missed out on the Gold award. In the EcoVadis overall ranking of aroun...

Fusion power plants of the future will not only require extremely hot plasmas and strong magnetic fields but also a fuel cycle in which the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium can be recovered, separated, and reused. Together with partners, a team from HZDR has now demonstrated a highly efficien...

Mehdi Hireche has been appointed Managing Director of Air Liquide Deutschland GmbH, effective July 1, 2026. In this role, he will be responsible for Air Liquide’s business development and sustainable growth in Germany. He succeeds Sebastian Jureczek and will be based in Düsseldorf. Mehdi Hireche beg...

The first electrolytic hydrogen produced in Lingen, Lower Saxony, has reached Marl in the northern Ruhr region. This means that all components of the integrated hydrogen project GET H2 Nukleus are now successfully working together as a network. As part of the ongoing commissioning process for two 10...

The interaction between X-rays and matter can be actively controlled: an international research team led by the University of Hamburg and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has succeeded in producing bright X-ray images that come with significantly less damage. In Nature Communications, the resear...

For female consumers, fruit juice is synonymous with naturalness and quality. Products sold as fruit juice must not contain any added sugar—only the sugar that occurs naturally in the fruit. However, adulteration with foreign sugars is difficult to detect analytically because added syrups can mimic ...

Univar Solutions LLC (“Univar Solutions” or “the Company”), a leading global solutions provider to users of specialty ingredients and chemicals, today announced it has acquired H.M. Royal, a highly respected 101-year-old specialty distributor of rubber, plastics, and adhesive additives. The addition...

Every year, billions of products are sealed in film packaging. This packaging must be reliably leakproof, especially in regulated sectors such as in the medical and food industry. In the OCTInline project, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS have develop...

The energy system of the future will require sustainable catalysts that, for example, enable the efficient production of green hydrogen. Materials consisting of mixtures of five chemical elements show great promise for enabling ideal catalysts in the future. Researchers at the DFG Collaborative Rese...

Eppendorf has signed an agreement for a new production site in Penang, Malaysia, marking the start of its planned greenfield manufacturing facility in Bandar Cassia Technology Park. The company is investing EUR 40 million in the site, with production of initial products expected to begin in 2028. “T...

Fraunhofer ILT is developing laser-based manufacturing processes for applying PFAS-free functional coatings to metal components, plain bearings, and elastomer rollers. The RePEEK, EPOS, LEMBAS, and pureWaterSeal projects demonstrate that replacing "forever chemicals" requires more than suitable subs...

PFAS—the so-called “forever chemicals”—have become an integral part of numerous everyday and industrial products. At the same time, they are among the most problematic pollutants of our time: They are extremely persistent, accumulate in the environment and in organisms, and are difficult to remove f...

An international team of researchers from École polytechnique, Collège de France, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has achieved a world first: the experimental realization of an all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC), a material whose optical properties can be strongly and periodical...

Mechanical strain is one of the most common tools used to tailor the properties of materials. In piezoelectric materials, stretching or compressing a crystal generates an electrical polarization. In piezomagnetic materials, it induces magnetization. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the St...

Researchers at the Max Born Institute have developed a laboratory-based method in which attosecond pulses are used both to excite and to observe electronic motion. Using a technique known as all-attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, the team was able to resolve the oscillatory motion of an e...

The new hydrogen peroxide megaplant in Leshan, Sichuan Province, China, has officially started production under Fuhua's operation and Evonik's licensing technology. World-scale facility ready to produce 200 kilotons of industrial-grade hydrogen peroxide per year Fuhua-operated plant based on Evonik ...

Suitable recycling process depends on composition of plastic waste Many technologies are viable but not yet used at industrial scale * Recycling keeps raw materials circulating and substitutes fossil resources A mix of recycling technologies is necessary to ensure that a broad variety of plastics ca...