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	<title>BASF-News: Research &amp; Development</title>
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	<copyright>2008, BASF SE</copyright>
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	  <title><![CDATA[“Ionic Liquids – Solutions for Your Success”]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3079</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Ionic liquids are a unique type of product with unparalleled characteristic properties that cannot be achieved with any other material. The entire bandwidth of industrial applications for which ionic liquids from BASF can be used is now summarized in the brochure titled “Ionic Liquids – Solutions for Your Success”.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF officially launches the collaborative Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3077</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[<b>Cambridge, MA and Ludwigshafen, Germany – April 29, 2008 –</b>  BASF today announced the official launch of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University. The Research Initiative at Harvard University represents an innovative model for university-industry collaboration designed specifically to drive new frontiers of scientific discovery. The opening of the initiative was celebrated with an inaugural two-day Symposium on Biofilms held in Cambridge, Massachusetts.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF Podcast - New catalysts for clean diesel vehicles]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3062</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[BASF Corporate Communications started a regular bilingual Podcast service in April 2007 to report on BASF’s innovations and research and development activities in an easy-to-understand, informative and entertaining way.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF to increase stake in hte to 75 percent]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3056</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, Germany – April 3, 2008 – BASF SE and hte have reached an agreement for BASF to increase its stake in Heidelberg-based hte Aktiengesellschaft from 12.7 percent to 75 percent plus one share. The vendors and BASF have agreed not to disclose financial details of the transaction, which is still subject to merger control clearing.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF co-sponsors The Science of Survival exhibition ]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3055</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Ludwigshafen/London – BASF SE is co-sponsoring The Science of Sur-vival exhibition that opens today in London. The exhibition shows how our lives could have changed by the year 2050 in the face of changing climate and resource availability. Through interactive exhibits, artifacts and video, visitors experience how major future trends in mobility, energy and resources, housing and construction and nutrition and health could impact tomorrow’s daily life and what technologies and innovative solutions are already in the pipeline today that could bring about these changes.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF Podcast - Better harvest in spite of climate stress]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3032</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[BASF Corporate Communications started a regular bilingual Podcast service in April 2007 to report on BASF’s innovations and research and development activities in an easy-to-understand, informative and entertaining way.<br />In this Podcast of “Chemistry of Innovations” you will learn about how plant biotechnology can help to make crops more tolerant against climate stress. ]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Anti-aging for facades]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3027</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Life on earth began more than three billion years ago. Evolution had almost as much time to optimize biominerals like bone, dental enamel or mother-of-pearl. These composite materials produced by nature combine the hardness of crystalline minerals like hydroxylapatite or aragonite with the flexibility of organic substances such as collagen or chitin, making them some of nature's most stable materials.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF launches two crop protection active ingredients]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3024</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[BASF Crop Protection has launched two active ingredients from its promising pipeline of development projects in the past few months: orysastrobin and metaflumizone.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Alliance project for printed electronics launched]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3009</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Fürth, Germany (27 Feb 2008) – PolyIC, BASF, Evonik Industries, Elantas Beck and Siemens have announced the launch of a new German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)-sponsored alliance project called MaDriX to advance the development of high-performance printable Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. ]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Professor YuZhuo Li joins BASF]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=2995</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Hong Kong, China – February 18, 2008 – BASF is pleased to announce that Professor YuZhuo Li from Clarkson University, United States, has joined the company. Li, a leading expert in the area of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), will lead BASF’s global CMP research and development team to develop innovative solutions for the semiconductor industry.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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