Newly developed nanoporous carbon monoliths have superior advantages over traditional activated-carbon powder

Promising CH4 Storage Materials

Substitute Natural Gas (SNG) Plant in Mongolia
New SNG plant to start-up and produce gas in Keshiketeng County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Enhancing Enhancement
A statistical approach can extract signals dynamically from Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra (SERS) of nanoparticles

Nanofibers as Axon Surrogates
Polystyrene nanofibers can be used to simulate axons and study how they are wrapped by myelin

Combining Metal Ions and Ligands to Fight Cancer
Researchers designed dithiocarbamato complexes as anticancer drugs using the metal's cytotoxicity and the ligands' protective effects

Preventing The Breakdown of Heterochromatin
Newly discovered enzymes and transcription factors are important for the stability of heterochromatin

Double-Edged Synthesis
A two-directional total synthesis has been used by US chemists to construct microbial molecules with anticancer properties

Structure and Bonding of Tetracyanopyrrolides
Salts containing the binary tetracyanopyr rolide anion were synthesized from tetracyano-1,4-dithiin and sodium azide

Kurt Bock New President of Cefic
Dr. Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, has been elected as president of Cefic

More PhD Students Around the Globe
A new report shows similar evolutions in doctoral education in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa