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Bio-on Wins Global Innovation Award
In June Italian bio-plastics leader, Bio-on had inaugurated their first owned plant designed to produce 100% natural and biodegradable special PHAs bioplastics. And now...
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Digital Transformation of the Chemical Industry enables sustainable operations
Sustainability is not only in terms of complying with environmental regulations, reducing emissions etc. It calls for efficiencies across the entire value chain of...
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Why no concern about the liquidation of petroleum refinery project in...
It is surprising that neither the Government of Tamilnadu nor the political parties or fringe groups in Tamilnadu have expressed concern that a six million...
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Dow, aiming to be Technology Leaders in India
Dow, having broad range of technology-based products in specialty chemicals, advanced materials, agricultural sciences, and plastics businesses, is investing heavily in India, with emphasis...
Yesteryear's Nobel Laureates
Leopold Ruzicka (1887–1976)
Lord of the Carbon Rings
All his life, the great Croatian-Swiss scientist Leopold Ruzicka maintained an enormous interest in the chemical processes of nature. His...
Otto Hahn (1879 – 1968)- The Father of Nuclear Chemistry
One of the greatest pioneers in radioactivity and radiochemistry, German chemist Otto Emil Hahn was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his...
Herbert C. Brown (1912 – 2004)
Trailblazing Research in Boron Chemistry
A few times in the history of chemistry have new synthetic methods been deemed so important that the originators have...
Paul Karrer (1889 – 1971)- Pioneering research on the structure of vitamins
Paul Karrer, a Swiss organic chemist, was the first to unravel the chemical structure of several vitamins and plant dyes, and also the first...
Peter Debye(1884 – 1966)- Phenomenal Achievements in Physical Chemistry
When the Dutch physicist and physical chemist Petrus Debye first arrived from Europe at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1939-1940 to deliver the...
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Robots minaturised to produce drugs
The age of robotics that started with automotive manufacturing is now upon us, spreading rapidly into other areas. Robots normally come human sized or bigger or smaller but with complex machinery....
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