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A new special issue of Yale's Journal of Industrial Ecology addresses this gap with cutting edge research that advances methods, tests new approaches against emerging technologies, and assesses novel technologies for transportation, infrastructure, energy, and materials.
Feb 21st, 2020
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Researchers have developed a new procedure for recycling concrete with the addition of discarded wood. They found that the correct proportion of inputs can yield a new building material with a bending strength superior to that of the original concrete.
Feb 20th, 2020
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Researchers develop enhanced device to transform CO2 into valuable chemicals 10 times faster than previous versions.
Feb 10th, 2020
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Solar panel costs have dropped lately, but slimming down silicon wafers could lead to even lower costs and faster industry expansion.
Jan 27th, 2020
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Scientists make the case for a future where the materials and chemicals that make up the basis of our society and our economy are healthful rather than toxic, renewable rather than depleting, and degradable rather than persistent.
Jan 27th, 2020
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Researchers have found a way to harness the entire spectrum of sunlight.
Jan 23rd, 2020
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Scientists show for the first time, that copper thiocyanate can be used as a transparent and effective hole transport layer for Cu2O photocathodes with overall enhanced performance.
Jan 16th, 2020
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Most of today's solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity only from the side facing the sky. If the dark underside of a solar panel could also convert sunlight reflected off the ground, even more electricity might be generated.
Dec 19th, 2019
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Researchers have developed new thermoelectric materials, which could provide a low-cost option for converting heat energy into electricity.
Dec 17th, 2019
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Researchers have found an effective and inexpensive strategy to transform solar cells from opaque to transparent.
Dec 14th, 2019
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Electroreduction of carbon monoxide for the highly selective production of ethylene.
Dec 12th, 2019
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Laboratory experiments and a parabolic flight campaign have enabled an international team of researchers to gain new insights into water electrolysis, in which hydrogen is obtained from water by applying electric energy.
Dec 9th, 2019
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Researchers have developed an innovative control system for repurposed electric vehicle battery packs to store electricity for home use and are scaling up the technology to a large, power grid-level project.
Dec 6th, 2019
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The latest estimate is that the world's five largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies spend about US$200 million a year on lobbying to control, delay or block binding climate policy.
Nov 28th, 2019
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Hydrogen as an energy carrier can help us move away from fossil fuels, but only if it is created efficiently. One way to improve efficiency is to use waste heat that's left over from other industrial processes.
Nov 14th, 2019
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A superconducting rotor has been successfully tested on an active wind turbine for the first time. The EcoSwing consortium designed, developed, manufactured a full-size superconducting generator for a 3.6 megawatt wind turbine, and field-tested it in Denmark.
Nov 12th, 2019
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