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Elevance files for $100m IPO
A busy IPO (initial public offering) season this year as Illinois, US-based Elevance Renewable Sciences joined the ranks of Myriant, Genomatica, Gevo, Amyris, Solazyme, Codexis and Metabolix. The company submitted its S-1 form to the US Securities and Exchange Commission...
kilomentor
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">The other day, I was reading journals in the University of Toronto chemistry library. A hot topic for synthetic chemists is asymmetric organocatalytic cascade/domino reactions. An example of such a publication is Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48,
Interview: Carbon Sciences
My apologies to Carbon Sciences for putting this interview post very, very late. However, this could be a good timing given that price of gasoline is once again within the $4/gal range. Carbon Sciences, a California-based public company, is developing...
Biofuel News Roundup
I'm still assembling my weekly news roundup but decided again to separate biofuels as there seem to be several interesting ones that came out last week BASF's 2nd biodiesel catalyst plant BASF plans to build its second Latin American sodium...
Presenting: Siluria
The green blog still has Anellotech (tech - Biomass to aromatics) and Arzeda (tech -biocatalysts) to cover based on their presentations from the Biobased Chemicals East conference, but let's start with this very intriguing company Siluria - their technology is...
Glycerine to methanol
Glycerine, a byproduct of biodiesel production, is proving to be a really versatile chemical with this new breakthrough from Oxford University in the UK. Oxford researchers said they were able to produce methanol directly by catalytic hydrogenolysis of glycerine using...
Biofuels offer considerable scope for catalysts
The Catalyst Group says that biofuels offer considerable scope for catalysts, which could help improve yields and reduce reaction times. It's not on the Catalyst Group's website yet... so here's what they said in an email...
A catalytic route to Biodisel
Workers in the mid west have developed a catalytic route to biodiesel with few or no by products...
Solar cell directly splits water for hydrogen
" This is a proof-of-concept system that is very inefficient. But ultimately, catalytic systems with 10 to 15 percent solar conversion efficiency might be achievable," says Thomas E. Mallouk , the DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry and
For fuel cells, gold is more precious than platinum
Scientists from the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory found that nanoscale catalysts gold-cerium oxide and gold-titanium oxide are more efficient in producing purer hydrogen in fuel cell reactions than the expensive platinum-based catalysts. These next generation catalysts could
