With a few genetic tweaks, a type of soil bacteria with an appetite for hydrocarbons shows promise as a biological factory for converting a renewable—but frustratingly untapped—bounty into a replacement for ubiquitous ...
Materials Science
Mar 7, 2019
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Lignin, used as a renewable resource to produce high-value products, has presented both production and economical challenges for biorefinery operations.
Biochemistry
Feb 26, 2019
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Making chemicals for industrial processes often requires scientists to use a catalyst—a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction, reducing the amount of energy it takes to make different products.
Materials Science
Mar 27, 2018
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Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed an energy-efficient recycling process that restores used cathodes from spent lithium ion batteries and makes them work just as good as new. The process ...
Materials Science
Jan 25, 2018
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Carbon capture could help the nation's coal plants reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yet economic challenges are part of the reason the technology isn't widely used today. That could change if power plants could turn captured ...
Materials Science
Dec 15, 2017
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An inexpensive biomaterial that can be used to sustainably replace plastic barrier coatings in packaging and many other applications has been developed by Penn State researchers, who predict its adoption would greatly reduce ...
Materials Science
Sep 19, 2017
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Carnegie Mellon University chemist Terrence J. Collins has developed an approach that quickly and cheaply removes more than 99 percent of bisphenol A (BPA) from water. BPA, a ubiquitous and dangerous chemical used in the ...
Materials Science
Aug 2, 2017
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Plasma Physics
Aug 1, 2017
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72
Waste material from the paper and pulp industry soon could be made into anything from tennis rackets to cars.
Materials Science
May 15, 2017
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Chemical engineers and chemists from Rice University and China's Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have made something so useful and unusual they aren't yet sure how much it's worth.
Materials Science
Aug 8, 2016
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