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Pre-programmed degradation makes 'biodegradable' plastics truly compostable
Added: 22 Apr 2021
By embedding polymer-eating enzymes in plastic, researchers have found a way to make previously tri…
'Team ice' uncover crucial information to aid the development of new more active cryoprotectants
Added: 17 Mar 2021
Researchers uncover new understanding around the interactions between synthetic polymers and ice fo…
Closed-loop chemical recycling of common petrochemical realised
Added: 28 Jan 2021
Imagine plastics and rubber that can be chemically unzipped back to reusable monomers for recycling…
How to grow your own smart materials with live fermentation cultures
Added: 12 Jan 2021
Have you ever made your own soda bread or homemade yoghurt using a fermented 'starter culture'? Ima…
Plant-based supercapacitor delivers 900 x energy efficiency
Added: 11 Sep 2020
In a new study, researchers at Texas A&M University have described their novel plant-based energy s…
Hydrogel paves way for biomedical breakthrough
Added: 4 Aug 2020
A University of Sydney team of biomedical engineers has developed a plasma technology to robustly a…
Advanced Engineering and Lab Innovations: visitors are in safe hands
Added: 31 Jul 2020
The UK Government has recently endorsed the reopening of conferences and exhibitions, releasing a s…
New antiviral technology supports reusable COVID-19 facemasks
Added: 25 Jun 2020
Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and ITA RWTH Aachen, two of the most recognised academic …
Photoactivated enzymatic oxygen transfer
Added: 28 May 2020
Researchers at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Pavia (Italy) have now identified an enzym…
Biohybrid organic battery combines nanocomposite and bacteria
Added: 27 May 2020
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a programmable, biohybrid ma…
Largest Synthetic Polysaccharide Assembled
Sarah Lawton | Added: 30 Apr 2020
Chemists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) have set a miles…
Carbon nanotubes grown on newsprint
Added: 26 Nov 2019
Your old copies of Lab News may still have some unexpected uses in the lab…
Ancient yeast leavens bread
Added: 7 Aug 2019
A 4,500-year-old strain of yeast sampled from ancient Egyptian pottery has been used to bake bread.
Porous rocks support prebiotic evolution theory
Added: 7 Aug 2019
The water-air interface found at pores in volcanic rocks could have been the location of the chemic…
UK food safety company partners cannabis producer
Added: 5 Aug 2019
Scottish food safety company R-Biopharm Rhône will supply its test kits to an unnamed Canadian cann…
Agar Scientific buys London Resin Company
Added: 2 Aug 2019
Laboratory equipment supplier Agar Scientific has acquired London Resin Company for an undisclosed …
Wine compound could help Mars missions
Added: 19 Jul 2019
A NASA-funded study has determined that resveratrol, a compound found in grape skins, could be key …
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