Shandong company starts production of food-grade xylose

The target of Healtang Co., a Shandong enterprise with sales of 7 billion Yuan in 2011, is to produce 200.000 t/y of food-grade xylose as a functional sweetener China Industrial Biotechnology Network, Sept. 2, 2013

Carbon nanotubes spun into yarn: CAS Institute of Chemistry, Beijing

Professor Minghua LIU’s group has constructed supramolecular yarn from monomers of N,N-eicosanedioyl-di-L-histidine . At slightly alkaline pH, the molecules assemble into flat sheets, which then roll up into nanotubes that are about 40nm wide and several hundred...