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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on May 22, 2011 Comments Off

Iowa State engineer scales up process that could improve economics of ethanol production – Iowa State's Hans van Leeuwen and a team of researchers have built a pilot plant to test a process designed to improve ethanol production. Nuclear Magnetic …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 23, 2011 Comments Off

Two Queen’s University Belfast chemists ‘top in UK’ – Scientists from Queen's University, Belfast, have taken the first and second slots in a list of top chemists. Professor Ken Seddon, a director of the QUB's Ionic Liquids Laboratory (QUILL), came …

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Greener Ionic Liquids

Posted by David Bradley on October 1, 2002 1 comment

A greener-still class of room temperature ionic liquids to replace toxic and flammable organic solvents has been devised by German chemists. As has been reported previously many times, ionic liquids could make very useful replacements for volatile organic compounds because …

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