AI identifies new materials for carbon capture

Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be used in many different applications, from catalysts to energy converters, writes Jared Sagoff. Generative AI techniques, machine learning and simulations give researchers new opportunities to identify environmentally friendly metal-organic...

Researchers achieve quantum key distribution for cybersecurity in novel experiment

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated that advanced quantum-based cybersecurity can be realised in a deployed fiber link. Their results, published in Optica, validate an earlier proof-of-principle laboratory experiment...

Industrial-scale centre-cut purification: innovating TIDE production with continuous chromatography

Purification is often a bottleneck in the peptide and oligonucleotide (TIDES) production process, but after the establishment of the first industrial scale continuous chromatography system for center-cut purification, TIDES manufacturing is entering a new...

Why the chemical industry hasn’t embraced AI … yet

The vast majority of executives in the chemical industry recognise the need for heightened investment in AI, so why isn’t it happening? Benson Wang, product director for Profet AI, explains. Eighty per cent of chemicals...

What’s next for nitinol

With its extreme flexibility and resistance to damage, the metal alloy, nitinol, has become an essential resource in medical devices manufacturing and other leading-edge industries. However, until recently, manufacturers of nitinol products have faced challenges...

‘Industry first’ for instant secure transfer of analytical methods and results data

Successful proof of concept at GSK employs data transfer via cloud to facilitate secure and efficient collaboration across companies, labs and time zones. The Pistoia Alliance has announced an industry first for its Methods Hub...

Cloud-based data security at the highest level

Cloud-based systems for plant process management (PPM) deliver significant benefits in terms of access, convenience, and handling. But are they safe to be used in sensitive industries like chemical or pharmaceutical manufacturing? The answer...

Powering a Green Transition for Chemical Manufacturers

Private wireless networks and their supporting monitoring systems can guide the sector’s green digitilisation journey, says David De Lancellotti, Enterprise Head of PWLS Campus, CNS Cloud and Network Services at Nokia. As one of the...

The Challenges of Streamlining Materials Discoveries for OEMs

Michael Helander, founder and CEO of OTI Lumionics, explains how manufacturers can streamline processes such as quantum computing simulations and materials development for faster, cheaper and more accurate results. The materials we had ten years...

Data security free of charge in the VEGA Tools app

New backup and restore solution reliably secures and saves data from VEGA sensors When a level or pressure sensor is taken out of service and replaced, it takes countless important sensor settings and data with...