Few people have heard of the chemical ethylene oxide, but all of us have used products that rely on it for their production, from antifreeze and ...

Ethylene oxide is a “platform chemical” with a $40 billion annual worldwide market used in the production of plastics, textiles and many other common products. Tufts University chemists discovered an ...

A new method for producing ethylene oxide, a key industrial chemical, has been developed, potentially reducing greenhouse gas emissions and eliminating the need for toxic chlorine.