Cologne district authority grants Bayer MaterialScience permit to build and operate the new toluene diisocyanate plant at Chempark Dormagen.
Theta-Probe XPS Machine Reveals Increase in Weight of the Kilogram
Researchers have shown the original kilogram is likely to be tens of micrograms heavier than it was when the first standard was set in 1875.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for November 2012
The most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals in November.
INVISTA’s Shanghai Hexamethylene Diamine Plant Receives EIA Approval
215,000-ton per year hexamethylene diamine (HMD) plant to be built at the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park.

Potential REP Lab-on-a-Chip System for Medicine and Research
New technology combines a laser and electric fields to separate particles and microbes by size.

Nanoparticles reach new peaks
Rice University researchers show short laser pulses selectively heat gold nanoparticles.
US Demand for Plastic Film to Grow 1.9% Annually to 16 Billion Pounds in 2016
Reportlinker.com makes new market research report available.

Best of pss 2013
Our Best of pss looks back on a particularly successful publication year of physica status solidi, this time with a strong focus on pss (RRL).
Southampton scientists develop strong, light glass nanofibres
Dr Gilberto Brambilla and Professor Sir David Payne announce creation of the new material – the strongest and lightest yet made.

January Highlights from physica status solidi
Topological Insulators, solar-cell silicon, and crystallization kinetics– these and more in January’s physics highlights.