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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO Business Intelligence

For chemists, finding just the right molecule for a particular application can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes.

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This startup turns discarded crab shells into useful industrial chemicals

GeekWire

That includes water purification, replacing flame retardants and PFAS “forever chemicals” in clothing, and improving the uptake of fertilizers by plants. The company was an early customer for Tidal Vision’s cleaning chemicals. An acquisition: Tidal Vision added roughly 100 employees when it acquired Everett, Wash.-based

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We’d Love Your Feedback On New Applications Designed To Master Supply Chain Resilience

Forrester IT

But now there is a global shortage of everything from twenty-foot containers to lumber and basic chemicals. Lead time and availability determine customer experience. We all learned about that during the crisis. You must master supply chain resilience to meet your customers’ lead time and availability expectations.

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‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup

GeekWire

Aquagga Photo) It would be fair to expect the destroyer of toxic “forever chemicals” to be a massive, intimidating device. The long-lived chemicals are great at deflecting water, stains and grease — but they escape from products and now contaminate drinking water across the nation and are even detected in breast milk.

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Embedded software development for IoT applications

Dataconomy

Image credit ) What is embedded software development and why is it important for IoT-enabled applications Embedded software development plays a major role in the introduction of IoT-enabled applications. However, through IoT applications comes the challenge of integrating sensors into embedded software systems.

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Seattle clean tech startup lands $1.4M for eco-friendly soy-based suds for shampoos, detergents

GeekWire

The tech: Sironix has developed a suite of surfactants, which are the chemicals that make shampoo foamy and lifts oily stains out of fabrics. Toxic tailwinds: Sironix’s surfactants can replace similar chemicals made from fossil fuels, including ingredients that can be contaminated with 1,4-dioxane, a likely carcinogen.

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Washington state researchers get $2M grant to invent better ways of recycling plastic trash

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Hongfei Lin, associate professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University. The project includes research into technologies for taking mixed plastic waste and using a chemical process for breaking the plastics into their building-block monomers that can be put to other uses.

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