The acquisition of Critica, a U.S.-based company, will allow for significant expansion of Henkel’s sustainable maintenance, repair, and overhaul portfolio.
The funds will go towards turning forest industry sidestreams into bio-alternatives, replacing fossil-based ingredients in the chemical and cosmetics industries.
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies adds a battery testing laboratory to its North American headquarters, increasing the company’s product development capabilities in the field of electric vehicles.
A new tool developed by scientists at Georgia Tech captures patterns and relationships and learns the grammar and syntax that occur at the atomic and higher levels in polymer structures.
October 24, 2023
PolyBERT treats chemical structures and connectivity of atoms as a form of chemical language and uses techniques inspired by natural language processing to extract the most meaningful information from chemical structures.
Cocoa pod husks, a waste product of chocolate manufacturing, contain lignin, a polymer that could be a renewable replacement for substances typically derived from petroleum.
The prize, awarded by the French Académie des sciences and financed by Arkema, rewards innovative chemistry research that offers solutions for responsible and sustainable development.