The petrol industry recognizes the importance of para-xylene, given its many uses in everyday products, from plastic soda bottles to polyester fiber. The challenge is that xylenes travel in threes and ...

The backbone of daily pathological diagnostic work is the paraffin section. Paraffin sections are still prepared by methods largely unchanged for over 150 years. A xylene-free method has been ...

A team of researchers at Zhejiang University in China, working with colleagues at Rutgers University in the U.S., has developed a way to use a manganese polymer to separate xylene isomers. In their ...

Chemical engineers have discovered a new, high-yield method of making the key ingredient used to make plastic bottles from biomass. The process currently creates the chemical p-xylene with an ...