From Niche Product to Megatrend: Cosmetics and Care Products with Sustainable Ingredients
Pharmaceuticals: Getting There without Side Effects
Innovation: Are Disruptive Business Models a Threat to the Chemical Industry?
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BACKGROUND
Tomorrow's Beauty Care

Only the best for the beauty sector: How to make discriminating customers happy.

DATA MINING
Unadorned Facts

Looking good! Facts and figures about the global beauty business, which is growing by leaps and bounds.

LEXICON
Skin Cream

Water and oil: How can these antagonistic components of many creams be combined? And how can this combination be stabilized? Our lexicon tells how.

REPORT
Green Force

Plants defend themselves against frost and hungry parasites—and attract the interest of the cosmetics industry.

RESEARCH
Protecting the Skin

Our skin protects us from environmental effects. But what protects our skin? New active ingredients that promote detoxification, for example.

BACKGROUND
Transport without Side Effects

Drug delivery—the art of transporting pharmaceutical ingredients to specific targets in the human body.

RESEARCH
Getting safely to the Destination

How liposomes play a key role in cancer therapy by transporting ribonucleic acids to the affected cells.

DIAGRAM
How Medications Enter the Body

The pathways are well known, but the “chemical packaging” and the navigation to specific targets are becoming ever more precise.

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ESSAY
Are Major Companies Going Extinct?

The chemical researcher Prof. Wendelin Stark talks about disruption and startups.

INTERVIEW
„Research requires Freedom“

Creavis Managing Director Prof. Stefan Buchholz talks about the development of good ideas and the role of distance or closeness to the parent company.

EDITORIAL
People-oriented

ELEMENTS Editor in Chief Matthias Ruch writes about the latest trends in medical research and the cosmetics sector.

OPINION
Phasing out Coal without Ideology

Evonik Industries CEO Christian Kullmann takes a stand regarding a major political project.

PORTRAITS
People and Visions

Introducing a “Biotech Queen” from India, a “digital Gyro Gearloose,” and an inventor who helps people with dementia.

IN MY ELEMENT
A Molecule for the Textbooks

Finding a long-sought proof: Moritz Malischewski has revolutionized our basic knowledge about carbon.

EVONIK COUNTRY
India

In this country marked by diversity, tradition, and confidence in the future, Evonik has seven locations and over 600 employees.

CORPORATE FORESIGHT
Smart Fabrics

Research from Evonik will help future fashion to do more than keeping us warm and looking good. Will we soon have smart fabrics equipped with poison detectors and training aids?