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Salvaged desalination waste

March 12, 2019
The waste product of desalination, highly concentrated brine, is usually disposed of into the sea. MIT engineers are working on a commercial process that will instead convert this brine into...

Future Circular Collider: What is it?

March 8, 2019
Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success of the LHC and extend its research capabilities. Our two-part feature asks, what is...

Soil bacteria turns plants into plastic

March 7, 2019
A genetically tweaked microbe may be key to producing biodegradable plastic from plants.University of Wisconsin-Madison students worked with soil bacteria N. Aromaticivorans, a type of soil bacteria that digests lignin,...

Energy-efficient biocrude extraction

March 5, 2019
Chemical engineers have created a more rapid and energy-efficient method of converting algae to biocrude, a synthetic fuel.Inside microorganisms such as algae are lipids, fatty acid molecules that can be...

IoT sensors made with cellulose

March 4, 2019
An eco-friendly sensor made from cellulose could replace the plastics and polymeric materials currently used in electronics.Simon Fraser University and Swiss researchers care using a wood-derived cellulose material to print...

Sulphur polymers for eco-friendly plastics

February 14, 2019
A new catalytic process for making polymers out of sulphur could provide more environmentally friendly production of plastic.Currently, the process of reacting sulphur with organic crosslinker molecules to make it...

Nano-enhanced palladium reacts to light

February 7, 2019
An optical-enhanced form of palladium could be the key to a more environmentally friendly chemical manufacturing industry.Researchers at RMIT University in Australia manipulated the optical properties of palladium nanoparticles to...

Greener ammonia eliminates hydrogen and metal catalyst

January 17, 2019
A new process of creating ammonia from nitrogen and water eliminates the use of hydrogen or solid metal catalysts.The low temperature, low pressure electrolytic process developed at Ohio's Case Western...

Beating the diamond-standard

January 4, 2019
Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alternative is on…  How hard is super-hard? With advances in material science and engineering, comes the possibility...

Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products

January 3, 2019
A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly chemical products.

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