BUSINESS Business Roundup ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2022, 100 (34), p 15September 26, 2022Cite this:C&EN 100, 34, 15AbstractNippon Shokubai has invested in Hunan Fluopont New Materials, a Chinese firm that plans to launch a business in LiFSi , a lithium salt used as a battery electrolyte. Shokubai says it commercialized the electrolyte in Japan in 2013. BASF and Samsung will jointly study the feasibility of installing BASF’s OASE flue gas carbon-capture system on ships. The study will include engineering design and construction of a carbon-capture unit for a ship. Nutrition Technologies has raised $20 million to expand production of its insect-based protein. The company feeds fermented food waste to black soldier flies, which can be turned into protein and oil for animal feed or fertilizer. The Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted $200 million to establish a quantum computer program for drug discovery and climate change research. The program was launched with the University of Copenhagen and includes researchers from Europe, the US, and Canada. HTE , aView: PDF | Full Text HTML