While anyone who owns a refrigerator or freezer pays close attention to what these appliances can do to your electricity bill, people using this same sort of equipment in a laboratory may not share that awareness. In that case the electricity ...
Read More >>Two members of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering — current president Donna Jean Kilpatrick and Memorial University of Newfoundland Professor Faisal Khan, FCIC
Read More >>University of Toronto doctoral student Phil De Luna has always liked the idea of carbon sequestration, but he acknowledges that it needs some help.
Read More >>Michael Sefton and Molly Shoichet, who are fellows of the Chemical Institute of Canada will be invested as Officers of the Order of Canada. The Governor General grants this honour as acknowledgement of major lifetime contributions...
Read More >>Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) is making a strategic investment in FireRein Inc., a small firm that has been introducing Canada’s fire-fighting community to Eco-Gel, a new, environmentally benign fire-suppression...
Read More >>In the seven years since a tsunami demolished three Fukushima Daiichi reactors in Japan, the radioactive isotopes that spread from this event to Canada’s west coast have dwindled to levels that can only...
Read More >>University of Toronto researcher and Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering member Molly Shoichet has become the first Chief Science Officer to the Ontario government.
Read More >>Our planet’s lower atmosphere is one very busy place, chemically speaking, as climate researchers have discovered. They are developing a new appreciation of complex processes such as cloud formation and radiative forcing, which determines how much light from the sun can reach the earth’s surface and how much heat can escape.
Read More >>Humanity’s use of essential oils goes back thousands of years, with natural agents such as frankincense playing...
Read More >>Rubber polymers have been capturing the attention of chemists and the wider public since at least 1770, when pioneering chemist Joseph Priestley coined the term for a material that could remove lead pencil marks from paper.
Read More >>Which is cleaner, diesel or gasoline? It’s a complex question. While diesel emits more greenhouse gases per gallon, it is also more energy dense and can result in greater fuel economy, lowering emissions...
Read More >>Naturally occurring complex molecules make attractive research targets, especially if they have some compelling property like antibiotic behaviour. University of British Columbia chemistry professor Katherine Ryan...
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