All Chemical Engineering

Polythene film outperforms aluminium
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2019
A new processing technique has produced a transparent polythene film that can be stronger than alum…

A plum deal for cancer drug synthesis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2019
Chemical synthesis could be used to replace an ingredient in anti-leukaemia compounds derived from …

Making the Crick… tick
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2019
An intriguing invitation took Dr Emily Scott-Dearing behind the scenes of The Francis Crick Institu…

Salvaged desalination waste
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Mar 2019
The waste product of desalination, highly concentrated brine, is usually disposed of into the sea. …

Future Circular Collider: What is it?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Mar 2019
Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …

Soil bacteria turns plants into plastic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2019
A genetically tweaked microbe may be key to producing biodegradable plastic from plants.!--more--
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Energy-efficient biocrude extraction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2019
Chemical engineers have created a more rapid and energy-efficient method of converting algae to bio…

IoT sensors made with cellulose
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Mar 2019
An eco-friendly sensor made from cellulose could replace the plastics and polymeric materials curre…

Sulphur polymers for eco-friendly plastics
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2019
A new catalytic process for making polymers out of sulphur could provide more environmentally frien…

Nano-enhanced palladium reacts to light
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2019
An optical-enhanced form of palladium could be the key to a more environmentally friendly chemical …

Greener ammonia eliminates hydrogen and metal catalyst
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2019
A new process of creating ammonia from nitrogen and water eliminates the use of hydrogen or solid m…

Beating the diamond-standard
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2019
Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alterna…

Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2019
A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly…

Two beams are better than one
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Dec 2018
As neutron crystallography advances it is becoming a powerful scientific tool, but will it replace …

Biodegradable Microbowls
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Nov 2018
Biodegradable Microbowls by Tayo Sanders II from the University of Oxford. Many tumours lack an ext…

Using science to change our world
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2018
As the Royal Institution sets it sights on expanding the public understanding of science, we hear f…

The chameleon and the crystal maze
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2018
How a crystal structure within the skin of the famous colour-changing lizard holds the key to weara…

A real fantastic voyage
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jun 2018
When many still think that swarms of medical nanobots in the body are the stuff of science fiction,…

Pure chemicals company raises finance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 May 2018
A Liverpool based chemical intermediates company has raised £1.5m in equity finance to support the …

Everyone is invited to the science party
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2018
Dallas Campbell is a well-known science populariser and, this month, will be a key speaker at the S…