Ethernet-APL: Revolutionising Process Automation for the Chemical Industry
The chemical industry, like many other process industries, is undergoing a digital transformation. Ethernet-APL (Advanced Physical Layer) is at the forefront of this evolution,...
Facility advances new-era nuclear research
The creation of a cutting-edge facility has established the University of Leeds as the UK’s leading experimental nuclear institution in the field of multiphase...
Incorporating artificial intelligence into your chemicals & materials business
We have been talking about artificial intelligence in the chemical industry for more than five years now. In the beginning, the conversations revolved mostly...
Innovation in Flow Chemistry: tackling Solid Management
An innovative program aims to optimise the management of parasitic solid compounds generated during chemical reactions. Trials will focus on applications within the pharmaceutical...
Commercially viable process for manufacturing established with new class of metals
Nanostructured high entropy alloys – metals made from a chaotic mix of several different elements – show a lot of promise for use in...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
