Merck has announced that it is selling its electrolytes business for high-performance batteries to BASF

Merck to Sell Battery Electrolyte Activities to BASF

Bioethanol Manufacturing Wastewater
Bioethanol distillery wastewater treated by using thermophilic microbial fuel cells (MFCs)

EU Innovation Growth Slowing
According to Innovation Union Scoreboard 2011 Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Finland are EU’s innovation leader

Stable Iron Nanoparticles as Contrast Agents
Iron nanoparticles with an iron oxide shell resist oxidation and maintain magnetic properties needed for biomedical applications

Bert Meijer To Give TCR Lecture
Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, will give The Chemical Record Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan

Mapping Hidden Nanostructures
New method to map nanostructures within materials may lead to biological imaging of the internal organization of cells

Solar Energy Strategic Agreement
DuPont and Yingli Green Energy enter a $100 million strategic agreement

More Mercury In Fish
Connection between increasing pH in lake waters and bioavailability of mercury proposed

What, Another Nobel Prize in Chemistry to a Nonchemist?
Roald Hoffmann discusses the purpose of the Nobel Prizes and why areas like biochemistry should be recognized

Largest Database of Self-classified Substances
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) launches the 'Classification and Labelling Inventory' of chemicals on the EU market