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Soil bacteria turns plants into plastic

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2019

A genetically tweaked microbe may be key to producing biodegradable plastic from plants.!--more--

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Energy-efficient biocrude extraction

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2019

Chemical engineers have created a more rapid and energy-efficient method of converting algae to bio…

IoT sensors made with cellulose

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Mar 2019

An eco-friendly sensor made from cellulose could replace the plastics and polymeric materials curre…

Sulphur polymers for eco-friendly plastics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2019

A new catalytic process for making polymers out of sulphur could provide more environmentally frien…

Nano-enhanced palladium reacts to light

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2019

An optical-enhanced form of palladium could be the key to a more environmentally friendly chemical …

Greener ammonia eliminates hydrogen and metal catalyst

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2019

A new process of creating ammonia from nitrogen and water eliminates the use of hydrogen or solid m…

Beating the diamond-standard

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2019

Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alterna…

Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2019

A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly…

Two beams are better than one

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Dec 2018

As neutron crystallography advances it is becoming a powerful scientific tool, but will it replace …

Biodegradable Microbowls

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Nov 2018

Biodegradable Microbowls by Tayo Sanders II from the University of Oxford. Many tumours lack an ext…

Using science to change our world

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2018

As the Royal Institution sets it sights on expanding the public understanding of science, we hear f…

The chameleon and the crystal maze

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2018

How a crystal structure within the skin of the famous colour-changing lizard holds the key to weara…

A real fantastic voyage

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jun 2018

When many still think that swarms of medical nanobots in the body are the stuff of science fiction,…

Pure chemicals company raises finance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 May 2018

A Liverpool based chemical intermediates company has raised £1.5m in equity finance to support the …

Everyone is invited to the science party

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2018

Dallas Campbell is a well-known science populariser and, this month, will be a key speaker at the S…

The future character of medicine

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2018

Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. H…

Some like it hot

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Mar 2018

The problem of ‘hot electrons’ mean that photovoltaic cells only harvest part of the sunlight they …

Why robotics needs a radical reboot

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Feb 2018

Intelligent robots that operate convincingly within the dynamic chaos of the real world are far fro…

A distinctly combinatorial approach

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Feb 2018

As energy costs go up, will we be able to leverage the power of the sun to produce chemicals? Meet …

Renewable energy branches out

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Dec 2017

A team from the US have found a way to convert one of the World’s most abundant polymer – lignin –i…