AkzoNobel in the UK has officially opened a trailblazing lab complex that can test new products in conditions that mimic the world's most extreme environments. Located in the company’s Felling site, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, the €12.6 million R&D innovation campus fuses the site's 115-year history of product development with state-of-the-art facilities.

Sartomer, a business line of Arkema, has launched in-house electron beam (EB) labs with equipment to help customers develop and test EB-curing formulations on a small scale using Sartomer's advanced liquid resin solutions.

Brown University researchers have shown a way to use graphene oxide (GO) to add some backbone to hydrogel materials made from alginate, a natural material derived from seaweed that’s currently used in a variety of biomedical applications.

Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) has officially launched the third edition of its Imagine Chemistry collaborative innovation challenge.

The first edition of Paint the Future, the AkzoNobel startup challenge, is now open and ready to discover new solutions that will accelerate innovation in the world of paints and coatings.

Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering are tapping a new set of capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence, combining artificial neural networks with infrared thermal imaging to control and interpret chemical reactions with precision and speed that far outpace conventional methods.

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the Catalyst Laboratory on Dec. 17, 2018.

Nouryon has been recognized by European startups for its collaboration efforts under the Imagine Chemistry innovation program.

Six innovative technologies from Dow were recognized with R&D 100 awards on Nov. 16, 2018.

An international collaboration between a lab at Cornell and a lab in Austria has come to a surprising conclusion about the self-cleaning properties of titanium dioxide.