More plastic is to be recycled worldwide. Pyrolysis, which is the liquefaction of plastic waste, creates new possibilities here. Evonik offers additives and technologies that improve the quality of pyrolysis oil in a manner that makes it suitable for the production of polymers
Microbiome
Probiotics: Spore solution
Evonik’s latest probiotic feed additive not only keeps poults healthy; its use in poultry farming makes an important contribution to the fight against antibiotic resistance. How Ecobiol® Pro is produced and why it benefits people around the world
Hydrogen
A Fine Advantage
Green hydrogen is seen as a great hope for the energy sector in the future. A team from Evonik has put a pilot plant into operation in which new high-performance membranes for water electrolysis are now being produced on a large scale. These hold the key to more cost-efficient production of green hydrogen, which industry needs as a building block for decarbonization, and for energy independence as well
Pharma
Perspective on RNA therapeutics, LNPs, and what comes next
Synthetic messenger RNA has revolutionized the development of medicines. While the focus has so far been infectious diseases, attention is now also turning to cancer and rare diseases. A key factor lies in the delivery systems
Lipid Nanoparticles
An Ecosystem for Lipid Nanoparticles
Why Evonik established a presence in Vancouver and Cambridge: to be close to cutting-edge science, innovative startups, and the next breakthroughs in RNA delivery
Health & Wellbeing
Take a Closer Look
Take a moment to explore Evonik’s innovative solutions—for contact lens wearers and beyond.
Biosolutions
Smooth As Silk
Silk has fascinated mankind for thousands of years. Now the precious fiber can be redefined biotechnologically. Together with the company AMSilk, Evonik uses fermentation to manufacture the precursor for a high-performance fiber modeled on nature
Green hydrogen is seen as a great hope for the energy sector in the future. A team from Evonik has put a pilot plant into operation in which new high-performance membranes for water electrolysis are now being produced on a large scale. These hold the key to more cost-efficient production of green hydrogen, which industry needs as a building block for decarbonization, and for energy independence as well
Hydrogen
“We need more planning security”
The market for green hydrogen is developing more slowly than expected in Germany and Europe. Dr.-Ing. Ann-Kathrin Klaas from the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne explains how government regulation and innovative technology can help ensure things pick up speed again
Hydrogen
Turn on the hydrogen
Hydrogen is considered the fuel of a green economy. Investments are rising rapidly.
Hydrogen
Important Role for Green Hydrogen
An anion exchange membrane enables the cost-effective and flexible production of green hydrogen. Evonik has developed such a membrane and will produce it in a pilot plant in Marl in the future.
In my Element
Hydrogen from the biorefinery
At the Evonik site in Rheinfelden, on the border with Switzerland, hydrogen is produced in an unconventional way.
In my Element
The element from outer space
Iridium probably came to Earth through asteroid impacts. Today, it is in great demand for the production of green hydrogen. Zahra Nasri explains why.
Hydrogen
Hydrogen fuels hope
When it burns it only produces water, its supply is inexhaustible, and its applications are manifold: Hydrogen has what it takes to fundamentally transform our economic system. Evonik is working in many areas to help make this vision a reality
Energy Transition
The membrane is the key
Huge amounts of green hydrogen will be needed to create a sustainable economic system. As a result, Evonik is working together with partners to develop a new membrane that will make environmentally friendly water electrolysis competitive
Chart
The All-Rounder
Hydrogen is extremely versatile, which is why hydrogen from renewable energies is a raw material of the future.
Interview
Hydrogen: the energy carrier of the future
The President of the Energy Watch Group, Hans-Josef Fell, is calling for the almost exclusive utilization of green hydrogen from renewable sources. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Secretary General of the industrial association Hydrogen Europe, believes this is not enough. A debate.
Evonik’s latest probiotic feed additive not only keeps poults healthy; its use in poultry farming makes an important contribution to the fight against antibiotic resistance. How Ecobiol® Pro is produced and why it benefits people around the world
Data Mining
Life and Death
Antibiotics help save millions of lives. However, they pose a problem when added to animal feed in particular, as their mass use promotes resistance. An overview of the situation in figures
Pharma
Dangerous Resistances
The discovery of antibiotics revolutionized medicine—and at the same time sowed the seeds of a global crisis. That’s because it is increasingly the case that bacteria can no longer be combated with the available means
Microbiome
Microbe Billionaire
Billions and billions of microbes live on our skin and keep it healthy. Our diagram shows them on a large scale.
Microbiome
Ready to Wear
The surface of our body is home to a large number of microorganisms that are beneficial to our health. Cosmetics should not disturb the natural microbiome of the skin. For this reason, a team at Evonik led by microbiologist Stefan Pelzer has developed a model that can be used to test important ingredients
More plastic is to be recycled worldwide. Pyrolysis, which is the liquefaction of plastic waste, creates new possibilities here. Evonik offers additives and technologies that improve the quality of pyrolysis oil in a manner that makes it suitable for the production of polymers
Politics
Pyrolysis and Politics
The role that pyrolysis oils from plastic waste can play in the production of new plastics in the future is not just dependent on purity and technical feasibility. The political environment is also a factor here and can provide incentives to promote chemical recycling—or not. It therefore makes sense to take a look at the EU, the United States, and China, which together account for around three quarters of global steam cracker capacity
Circularity
One more round
In chemical recycling of plastics, the quality of the resulting pyrolysis oil is crucial. The purer the product, the more opportunities it offers for further processing. This is how the cycle works.
Energy Transition
Chemical plant heats 1,000 households
It’s an untapped resource: the waste heat from industrial production that has largely been escaping unused into the environment. At the same time, demand is growing for climate-friendly heat in cities and regions. Tightly linking industry, energy suppliers, and municipalities is a key lever for aligning climate protection, economic efficiency, and security of supply. A project at Evonik’s site in Herne shows how it can work.
Hydrogen Peroxide
Sustainable Propulsion Systems Boost Spaceflight
The space industry is going places: The need to achieve technological progress and deliver sustainable propulsion systems is producing a host of new players that are driving these innovations inexorably forward. Evonik Active Oxygens’ environmentally compatible propellant, PROPULSE, has an important role to play here.
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In my Element
“This Blue Is Divine!”
A blue with a history spanning more than a thousand years, made unique by brominated compounds: For the Ptil Tekhelet Association in Jerusalem, it is indispensable for producing the Jewish prayer shawl in the traditional way—the only organization in the world that does so. Physicist and electrical engineer Baruch Sterman explains the background.
"We want to build the most accurate clock in the world"
Time is no longer measured solely in human dimensions. Atomic clocks control and regulate time more accurately than humans ever could. The Vienna University of Technology now wants to go one step further and base clocks on the atomic nucleus.
Hydrogen from the biorefinery
At the Evonik site in Rheinfelden, on the border with Switzerland, hydrogen is produced in an unconventional way.
“I’m reaching for the stars”
Dr. Andrea “Annie” Kritcher is a nuclear engineer and physicist on the National Ignition Faculty at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. For the December 2022 experiment, she designed the capsule that contained the deuterium and tritium fuel
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