Craig Bettenhausen

3 days ago | cen.acs.org | Craig Bettenhausen

After facing the threat of cancellation, the US Environmental Protection Agency's Safer Choice program, which supports the use of environmentally friendly and low-toxicity consumer product ingredients, will live on, though with less independence than it had. Under a new structure at the EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, the Safer Choice program will go from being independent to operating as part of the office's New Chemicals division.

3 weeks ago | cen.acs.org | Craig Bettenhausen

This red light isn't for romantic ambience. Charles University researcher Martin Orságh says the color lets him control a reaction called radical RAFT (reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer) polymerization. Orságh and collaborators are developing a system of photocatalysts and monomers that lets them switch between radical and cationic mechanisms just by changing the color of the light.

3 weeks ago | cen.acs.org | Craig Bettenhausen

Hangovers from alcohol overconsumption have been part of the human experience for the entirety of recorded history. We nonetheless have a limited understanding of the biochemistry behind the morning-after blues and rely mostly on folk remedies to cope with them. One treatment that seems to help is to drink electrolytes. A pharmacy in Europe might hand you betaine citrate or an effervescent, buffered potassium chloride-sodium chloride tablet.

1 month ago | cen.acs.org | Craig Bettenhausen

Green hydrogen, which is made by splitting water with renewable energy, sometimes seems like a long-shot solution to climate change. But despite political and economic headwinds, the low-carbon chemical feedstock and fuel is making some gains-especially in Europe-in the form of subsidies, investments, and deployed projects. The nascent industry has struggled in recent months as the Donald J.

1 month ago | cen.acs.org | Craig Bettenhausen

The electronic chemical start-up ChEmpower has raised $18.7 million in a series A funding round to advance its abrasive-free system for polishing and planarizing silicon wafers during semiconductor manufacturing. The investment was led by the venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, which supplies chemicals to the semiconductor industry, and included participation by Intel and the semiconductor toolmaker Tokyo Electron.