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Wastewater treatment is vital to remove pathogens, but is incredibly energy intensive. The ability to treat it more sustainably is a challenge researchers have been able to achieve, using recycled carbon fibre mats to produce hydrogen from waste water.
Nov 2nd, 2021
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Changing climatic conditions, the shortage of skilled workers, the use of pesticides - a wide range of factors have an impact on the quality and flow of agricultural processes. Researchers are aiming to make this more efficient and sustainable by means of cloud and AI technologies.
Nov 2nd, 2021
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Researchers are using modular software packages to automate capturing, documentation and evaluation processes for battery and fuel cell test data. Material manufacturers, cell developers and research departments can use the visualizations of the results as an effective means of targeting developments and improvements in their products.
Nov 2nd, 2021
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With the United Nations' climate conference in Scotland turning a spotlight on climate change policies and the impact of global warming, it's useful to understand what the science shows.
Nov 2nd, 2021
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Bioplastics can be chemically recycled into nitrogen-rich fertilizers in a facile and environmentally friendly way. These findings pave the way towards sustainable circular systems that simultaneously address issues such as plastic pollution, petrochemical resource depletion, and world hunger.
Nov 1st, 2021
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New research shows for the first time the resource consumption over the entire life cycle of such filter systems. The study also looks at the chemicals needed to operate the filters, as well as the removal and storage of the extracted CO2.
Oct 29th, 2021
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Scientists showed that green microalgae Chlorella sorokiniana can be used for cleaning wastewater from a toxic pyrene. Algae absorb pyrene and at the same time change their metabolism to adapt to stressful conditions. As a result, more lipids are formed in algae, from which safe biofuels can be efficiently synthesized.
Oct 27th, 2021
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The production of renewable energy is increasing every year. But after analysing the growth rates of wind and solar power in 60 countries, researchers conclude that virtually no country is moving sufficiently fast to avoid global warming of 1.5 C or even 2 C.
Oct 25th, 2021
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A new study shows how encasing algae protein in liquid droplets can dramatically enhance the algae's light-harvesting and energy-conversion properties by up to three times.
Oct 19th, 2021
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The production of renewable energy is increasing every year. But after analysing the growth rates of wind and solar power in 60 countries, researchers conclude that virtually no country is moving sufficiently fast to avoid global warming of 1.5 C or even 2 C.
Oct 15th, 2021
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The aim of a new research project is to manufacture recyclable and environmentally-friendly electrodes and subsequently regain materials from batteries via direct recycling.
Oct 15th, 2021
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Scientists and engineers have created a hydrogel tablet that can rapidly purify contaminated water. One tablet can disinfect a liter of river water and make it suitable for drinking in an hour or less.
Oct 6th, 2021
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In what should be a win-win-win for the environment, a process to extract valuable metals from electronic waste would also use up to 500 times less energy than current lab methods and produce a byproduct clean enough for agricultural land.
Oct 5th, 2021
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Manufacture, wear, wash, incinerate: This typical life cycle of garments, which pollutes the environment, is to be changed in the future - towards principles of circular economy with recycling at its core. Using an outdoor jacket made from PET bottles and recycled materials, researchers have investigated whether the product actually delivers what the idea promises.
Sep 30th, 2021
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Researchers have identified a key mechanism responsible for the lower efficiencies of organic solar cells and have demonstrated a way this hurdle might be overcome. Their results suggest the possibility of developing organic solar cells with efficiencies comparable to silicon-based cells.
Sep 30th, 2021
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StoRIES, a new European research consortium, has now been established to accelerate the development of energy storage systems.
Sep 29th, 2021
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Efficient water and urea electrolysis with bimetallic yolk-shell nanoparticles.
Sep 14th, 2021
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The idea of biodegradable plastics sounds good at first. However, very little is known about how they are degraded in the soil and how this is influenced by climate change. In two recent studies, soil ecologists have shown which microbial community is responsible for degradation, what role the climate plays in this process, and why biodegradable plastics could still be problematic.
Sep 14th, 2021
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