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Archives :: Sustainability :: Green Innovation of the Month
Displaying 1 - 20 of 56 stories.
April 26, 2012
Novozymes has joined the Maabjerg Energy Concept, a consortium which plans to build a biorefinery for generating biogas, advanced bioethanol, electricity and heat in western Denmark...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Novozymes-Partners-Danish-Biorefinery-Project_43003.html April 18, 2012
Think of Bayer and you might envisage materials that go into ski goggles (Makrolon polycarbonate), agchems (pesticides), or inventions such as polyurethane and the iconic aspirin...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Electroactive-Polymers-The-New-Buzz-at-Bayer_42668.html March 28, 2012
A technique developed by researchers from the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI; San Francisco Bay Area, CA), is able to optimise the performance of microbes to generate a target...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/U-S-Synthetic-Biology-Technique-Triples-Biodiesel-Yield_42324.html March 20, 2012
Rivertop Renewables (Missoula, MT), a biotech start-up, says it has successfully scaled-up its patented bioprocess for making the building block chemical glucarate from the lab to...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Rivertop-Scales-up-Bioglucarate-Process-to-Pilot-Scale_42065.html March 20, 2012
Researchers from Japan and the U.S. have developed a proton-responsive ligand and a homogeneous iridium catalyst which together enable the controlled storage and release of...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Mimicking-Photosynthesis-Enables-Storage-and-Release-of-Hydrogen_42127.html February 1, 2012
BASF Venture Capital, a BASF subsidiary, says it has participated in a $27 million financing round by investing $5 million in Solidia Technologies (Piscataway, NJ), a start-up company...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/BASF-Invests-in-U-S-Based-Advanced-Materials-Company_40950.html January 26, 2012
Celtic Renewables (Edinburgh, U.K.), a biotech company developing a process for converting whiskey byproducts into biobutanol and other biochemicals, has been launched yesterday. The...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/U-K-Spin-out-Firm-to-Generate-BioButanol-from-Whiskey-Byproduct_40714.html January 17, 2012
ACAL Energy (Runcorn, U.K.), a fuel cell technology company, has hired Endeavour Speciality Chemicals (Daventry, U.K.) to scale up a process for making a novel, liquid, non-precious...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Endeavour-Develops-Process-for-Groundbreaking-Liquid-Cathode-Fuel-Cell_40429.html January 11, 2012
A group of U.S. scientists say they have successfully used solid materials based on fumed silica impregnated with polyethylenimine (PEI), a readily available and inexpensive polymeric...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Research-Polymer-based-System-Breaks-Records-for-Capture-of-CO2_40304.html December 16, 2011
Solvay, in association with Imec (Leuven, Belgium,), a nanoelectronics research organization, and Polyera (Skokie, IL), an electronic materials supplier, claims to have achieved a new...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Separate-Groups-Vie-for-Solar-Polymer-World-Record-update_39877.html November 7, 2011
A team of researchers at MIT have developed a novel catalyst which liberates oxygen from water at a rate at least 10 times that of existing catalysts in a so called Oxygen Evolution...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/MIT-Researchers-Radically-Improve-Performance-of-Catalyst-for-Splitting-Oxygen-from-Water_38897.html September 21, 2011
Electrochaea (St. Louis, MO), a start-up company says it plans to begin industrial-scale testing of a proprietary anaerobic technology that converts waste CO2 and excess electric power...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/U-S-Firm-Pilots-Technology-to-Convert-Excess-Electricity-Waste-CO2-into-Natural-Gas_37709.html September 1, 2011
Automaker Daimler (Stuttgart) and BASF have jointly developed the ‘Smart Forvision’ concept vehicle that combines both companies’ ideas for “holistic”...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Smart-Forvision-Pioneering-Vehicle-Incorporates-More-Plastic-Parts-_37310.html August 4, 2011
Chemists at the University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA) have developed a new family of catalysts that could be applied to a broad range of applications including the...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/U-S-Chemists-Develop-Novel-Catalyst-Family_36671.html July 7, 2011
Solvay and Avantium (Amsterdam) say they have entered into a multi-year, exclusive partnership to jointly develop and commercialize high-performance polyamides for engineering plastics...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Solvay-and-Avantium-Codevelop-Engineering-Bioplastics_35975.html June 1, 2011
Green Tech energy company Carbon Sciences (Santa Barbara, CA) says it has validated its natural gas-to-transportation fuel technology in the lab, setting the stage for a strategic...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Carbon-Sciences-Working-on-Natural-Gas-to-Gasoline-Unit_35233.html May 13, 2011
Air Products has disclosed that in the past few days it has brought on stream a proprietary carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, purification and compression system at energy firm...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Carbon-Capture-Air-Products-Tests-Technology-in-German-Pilot-Facility_34854.html April 4, 2011
Privately owned start-up Proterro (Princeton, NJ) is developing a cyanobacteria - a photosynthetic microorganism named Protose - that can generate higher yields of sugar per acre than...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Photosynthetic-Organism-Yields-more-Sugar-than-SugarCane_33938.html March 1, 2011
Codexis (Redwood City), an enzymes technology firm, yesterday said it is making “significant progress” in its development of a commercial-scale enzyme that can reduce the...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Codexis-Expands-into-Industrial-Applications-Unveils-Carbon-Capture-Technology_33133.html February 8, 2011
Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) say they have developed an energy efficient process to produce diesel from biomass, bypassing energy-intensive...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/innovation/Spanish-Researchers-Develop-High-Yield-Biomass-to-Biodiesel-Process_32696.html |
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