SAN ANTONIO — June 16, 2025 — The Women’s Global Leadership Conference (WGLC) in Energy has selected Southwest Research Institute’s Angel Wileman for 2025’s Women in Hydrogen 50. This list recognizes 50 women, nominated by their colleagues and peers, as the current and future leaders of the hydrogen economy. This distinction honors Wileman as one of the most accomplished figures in her industry, with the potential to affect real change.

Researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have demonstrated an innovative method to control magnetism in materials using an energy-efficient electric field. The discovery focuses on materials known as magnetoelectrics, which offer promise for next-generation energy technologies, data storage, energy conversion, and medical devices. The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications.

The Diels–Alder reaction is a widely used tool for building complex ring structures but often requires difficult-to-make starting materials. Researchers from Waseda University, along with other collaborators, developed a palladium-catalyzed method to generate reactive ortho-quinodimethanes using simple, commercially available compounds. This one-step, multicomponent reaction efficiently produces diverse polycyclic molecules. Their discovery of a unique benzyl–palladium intermediate offers a practical, faster approach to synthesizing biologically important and structurally complex compounds, including natural products.