Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a synthetic textile modeled on polar bear fur. The team has founded a spin-off company, Soliyarn, LLC, and has begun production of the cloth. Researchers have Read More
A team at MIT has discovered that introducing new materials into existing concrete manufacturing processes could significantly reduce concrete’s carbon footprint – whose production is currently estimated to be responsible for 8% of global carbon Read More
Soft robotics researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a new type of robotic actuator – or “artificial muscle” – that mimics life-like movements. Notably, the actuator is composed of eco-friendly materials. “You Read More
A team led by Mario Caironi, coordinator of the Printed and Molecular Electronics Laboratory at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, has developed the world’s first rechargeable edible battery, which has great potential for use in Read More
The University of Pittsburgh has a new concept for the development of smart civil infrastructure systems with the introduction of metamaterial concrete. The metamaterial concrete would be lightweight and mechanically-tunable, with integrated energy harvesting and Read More
A team from Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany are working with partners from Spain to test brewer’s spent grain as a bio-source for the production of materials for electrochemical energy storage systems. They were Read More
Scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have developed a novel recycling method that can recover up to 70% of lithium from battery waste. Their technique does not use corrosive chemicals, high temperatures, Read More
A research team from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an eco-friendly glass made from biologically derived amino acids or peptides. Traditional glass – which is usually Read More
Researchers at Arizona State University are seeking to cut costs and stabilize the supply chain in battery technology by mixing lithium and sodium. Lithium’s rapidly increasing use in lithium-ion batteries for electric cars, computers, and Read More
An international research team – from Kyushu University in Japan and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany – has created a system that transforms blue LED light into high-energy Ultraviolet B (UVB) light. The new Read More
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