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Researchers turn plastic bottle waste into ultralight supermaterial with wide-ranging applications

World's first PET aerogels cut plastic waste, and are suitable for heat and sound insulation, oil spill cleaning, carbon dioxide absorption, as well as fire safety applications.

Nov 2nd, 2018

A solar cell that does double duty for renewable energy

Researchers develop an artificial photosynthesis system that generates hydrogen fuel and electricity at the same time.

Oct 29th, 2018

Researchers achieve breakthrough in process to produce hydrogen fuel

Researchers successfully reveal the fundamental chemical reaction present in solar power that could form the missing link to generate the electricity necessary to accomplish this process.

Oct 29th, 2018

The science of sustainability

Can a unified path for development and conservation lead to a better future?

Oct 16th, 2018

Novel catalyst for high-energy aluminum-air flow batteries

A recent study has introduced a novel electric vehicle (EV) battery technology that is more energy-efficient than gasoline-powered engines.

Oct 15th, 2018

New technique for turning sunshine and water into hydrogen fuel

Researchers have developed a new catalyst synthesis method that can efficiently decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen using solar light. It is expected that this method will facilitate hydrogen mass production due to higher efficiency than the existing photocatalyst method.

Oct 11th, 2018

Supersizing perovskite solar cells

Using simple and low-cost printing techniques, researchers have developed a perovskite solar module the size of an A4 sheet of paper.

Oct 3rd, 2018

New battery gobbles up carbon dioxide

Lithium-based battery could make use of greenhouse gas before it ever gets into the atmosphere.

Sep 21st, 2018

Using hydrogen, methane and methanol to reduce CO2 emissions

The i3upgrade project aims to recycle the CO2 from the steel manufacturing process and thus reduce emissions.

Sep 19th, 2018

Barriers and opportunities in renewable biofuels production

Researchers have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources. Firstly, lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories, and secondly, establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

Sep 11th, 2018

Not too wet, not too dry: plasma-treated fuel cell gets it just right

Pre-treating the electrode--a key component of fuel cells--with ionized oxygen gas, or plasma keeps the fuel cell dry.

Sep 7th, 2018

Study examines pros and cons of hydropower

Hydropower can generate electricity without emitting greenhouse gases but can cause environmental and social harms, such as damaged wildlife habitat, impaired water quality, impeded fish migration, reduced sediment transport, and diminished cultural and recreation benefits of rivers.