Professor Neil McKeown and colleagues from Cardiff University have published an article in the highly cited journal, Science on "An Efficient Polymer Molecular Sieve for Membrane Gas Separations".
Costain has secured financial support from the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) through a £20million programme for finding novel solutions to reduce the cost of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
Honeywell announced the winner of its fifth annual student competition dedicated to the encouragement of design and innovation in the process industry.
Three Erasmus researchers from the University of L'Aquila, Italy spent three months over the summer at the School of Engineering as members of Dr Lev Sarkisov's research group looking at molecular simulation.
The University of Edinburgh was awarded £250 million to fund its pioneering research in 2011-12 – this is a 37% increase over the previous year. The amount is a record for any Scottish university, beating the £249m awarded to Edinburgh in 2008-9.