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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value plastics that can compete with “virgin” plastic (meaning plastics made directly from petro-chemicals) is a fiendish problem to solve. Novoloop is setting out to transform plastic waste into high-performance chemicals and materials.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

C-Zero is developing a technology that converts natural gas to hydrogen, a much cleaner source of fuel, and solid carbon as the only waste stream for use in electrical generation, process heating and the production of commodity chemicals like hydrogen and ammonia. . “Our CTO talks about running a coal mine in reverse,” Jones said.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Novoloop , a plastic upcycling startup, said Wednesday it has raised a $10 million Series A extension round co-led by South Korean chemical firm Hanwha Solutions and Taizo Son’s Mistletoe. Novoloop’s mission is to create a circular economy by transforming low-value plastic waste into high-quality chemicals and materials, Wang added.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

These then convert the carbon dioxide into chemical compounds that are sold back to industry. Dubbed “PyroCO2,” the project aims to demonstrate the large-scale conversion of industrial carbon emissions into value-added chemicals and materials. If it can be scaled-up, this could turn even emissions into a revenue opportunity.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

McKinsey expects the chemical and pharma industries to be the first potential users of quantum computing, enabling the accurate simulation of larger numbers of atoms and molecules, which is not possible today using classical supercomputers.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Molecule.one creates a workflow starting with ordinary off-the-shelf chemicals and provides step by step instructions using known methods of how to go from A to B… and to C, D, and so on (it’s rarely simple). “In each move of this game, instead of moving a piece on a board, we break a chemical bond between a pair of atoms.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

With Katakem, Oliverio aims to develop what he calls a “robot chef” for chemists — a device that makes chemical reactions more consistently reproducible while accelerating the experimental process. “The production of a chemical product is strictly regulated and standardized. million ($1.27

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

The startup’s customers include companies in the pesticide, chemical, textile pigments, electronics and pharmaceutical sectors that are regulated by strict discharge limits. While earning her masters, Dr. Mushtaq worked with synthetic chemicals to develop new nanomaterials for biomedical applications. Oxyle’s team.

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APRIL 25, 2023

The energy-intensive process of separating and purifying chemicals and gases is a big reason why industries like plastic manufacturing cause so much pollution. UniSieve is already making revenue and currently has over 24 clients, including chemical and energy companies. Today the Zurich-based startup announced it has raised $5.5

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In August, the startup announced a dye removal technology called neochromato , co-developed with Japanese textile chemical company Nicca Chemical. The company said that its inkjet printing technology can also be used in other sectors such as healthcare, optics, and textiles. million for a platform that automates circuit board design.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The proposed rules would require companies to report on development activities, cybersecurity measures, and results from red-teaming tests, which assess risks such as AI systems aiding cyberattacks or enabling non-experts to create chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Continuation of Operation Dream Job sees North Korea-linked APT target orgs in espionage campaign.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Oil refineries and plastic production, for instance, may give off various hydrocarbons and other mixed gases and chemicals, and to separate them requires further processing and emissions. Huge numbers of fibers are bundled together into tubes through which the input gas is forced, with no chemical reactants required.

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MAY 8, 2023

The system, called a Terraformer, then combines the hydrogen and CO 2 into a chemical reactor to make natural gas. According to Handmer, the chemical reactor is hitting 94% methane purity already, which means that it is making synthetic natural gas fully compatible with existing distribution pipelines.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“Our goal is to empower governments and organizations to tackle scientifically and commercially relevant problems with today’s most advanced computational solutions — from designing and predicting properties of chemicals and materials, exploring molecular interactions, simulating complex chemical reactions, and more,” Zander said.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Even the diehard people that love chemicals, that love tilling the earth and other practices that have been releasing carbon in the atmosphere for thousands of years are starting to realize, hey, maybe we should be open to other ways to do this,” reflects Richard Wurden, CEO at Aigen.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Logisly now works with more than 1,000 businesses in Indonesia in sectors like e-commerce, fast-moving consumer goods (FCG), chemicals and construction. .” Shipper, a platform for e-commerce logistics in Indonesia, raises $5 million. This number includes 300 corporate shippers.

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JUNE 24, 2021

In development is a smarter version of the sampler that includes a set of sensors that can do on-site testing for all the most common factors: temperature, pH, troubling organisms, various chemicals. Skipping the step of bringing the water back to a lab for testing streamlines the process immensely, as you might expect.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

When Clarisse Beurrier was getting her education in chemical engineering and biotechnology, she already knew she wanted to make a difference; hence her participation in Effective Altruism Cambridge, an organization dedicated to helping smart and capable people target their philanthropic urges at the problems that will have the biggest actual impact (..)

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JANUARY 4, 2023

They are intended for use by clients in the semiconductor, electronics, chemicals and textile manufacturing industries. The company’s flagship products are its AutoML Virtual Data Scientist Platform and Ready To Go Applications.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The towers can incubate shrimp without chemicals or antibiotics, and out of season. The result was Vertical Oceans , a startup that grows sustainable shrimp in huge “aqua towers”, which can be located inside cities, potentially in facilities that even look like buildings. million seed round with Khosla Ventures.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

All of the other metals that get deposited at the base of the ponds — sodium, potassium, magnesium — get removed through exposure to harmful chemicals in order to access just the lithium. . Brine flows into metal columns, which use Nano Mosaic to capture first all salts and minerals, and then just lithium.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The implications of this trend is that startups like bioniq and Longevica are basically starting to get into the realms of wellness and longevity using big data around these so-called “age-defying” chemicals.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Part of that comes from the need to closely examine every relevant molecule, studying its chemical composition and interactions as well as its physical structure at the atomic level. Discovery and research of new molecular compounds is an expensive business, with development costs exceeding $10 billion per substance in some cases.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But water isn’t a particularly harsh substance, unlike many chemical precursors to useful oils and other molecules. “Maybe only 10 years ago, people started to research chemical-resistant membranes. That’s a challenging thing and a lot of research was done to get there,” said Farahani.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Compliance: In some verticals, particularly those related to healthcare and chemicals, there is a heavy compliance burden to ensure goods are properly sourced and transported. Insurance: Business buyers frequently purchase insurance as part of their transactions, particularly in high-value verticals such as jewelry.

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MAY 14, 2022

But there are still many smaller sites, from cement kilns to chemical plants, that are currently wedded to fossil fuels but still need to be decarbonized. After all, the world needs to eliminate emissions on a vast scale, and the technology benefits from a certain amount of scale.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We want to feed the world responsibly, and these products have the ability to substitute for synthetic chemicals and provide growers a way to protect their crops, especially as consumers want natural, sustainable tools,” he added. While the solution would be to not do that, not doing that would mean produce doesn’t grow as well, he added.

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JUNE 21, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) data was possibly leaked after an attack in January 2024. In the attack, hackers exploited an Ivanti Connect Secure appliance zero-day to access CISA’s tool.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Using high-tech imaging techniques, the company claims to map the physical and chemical composition of fields faster, better, and more cheaply than traditional techniques, and has raised $10M to scale its solution.

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JULY 26, 2022

It targets legacy industries not as digitally savvy in payments, including lumber, chemicals, steel, retail and food. Some of its customers include lumber marketplace MaterialsXchange, chemical supply marketplace ChemDirect, wholesale retail marketplace Abound and restaurant ordering platform notch.

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JULY 13, 2022

The heart of XFuel’s work revolves around what the company calls mechanical catalytic conversion, which takes plant material and uses heat, chemical reactants and friction to help break it down. Ball, when pressed, wouldn’t be more specific than that.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

These pollutants come from outdoor pollution, but also from materials that are used in construction, such as paints, coatings and chemicals. That’s why Neoplants focuses on two categories of VOCs — formaldehyde (HCHO), and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX). Cooking and smoking can also foster indoor pollution.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Alongside lead investor Lotte Chemical and investment company KTB Network, General Motors’ corporate venture capital arm, GM Ventures, signed on as a strategic investor. It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles.

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JUNE 27, 2024

The charges against al-Assad were Brough against him over an alleged use of banned chemical weapons against Syrian civilians. On Wednesday, a French appeals court upheld an arrest warrant issued for Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian President. The warrant was approved in November 2023 by French judges, and cites charges of […]

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We want to be the Dow Chemical of space,” Schiel said. “We By 2025, Schiel said he hopes every spacecraft will have a RAFTI on it. In the long-term, the company is thinking even bigger: producing fuel in-space, using material mined from asteroids. “We

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Immunai’s approach to developing new insights around the human immune system uses a ‘multi-omic’ approach – essentially layering analysis of different types of biological data, including a cell’s genome, microbiome, epigenome (a genome’s chemical instruction set) and more.

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