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Cleaner, stronger, harder: New tech improves sustainable concrete

Recycled concrete aggregates made with everything from coffee cups to building rubble offer huge environmental benefits, from reducing landfill and CO2 emissions, to saving natural resources and boosting the circular economy.

January 28, 2021 Read more

Making solar power more efficient

Researchers using artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve photovoltaic power plants.

January 26, 2021 Read more

Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems

New design could speed reaction rates in electrochemical systems for pulling carbon out of power plant emissions.

January 25, 2021 Read more

New research project on sustainable electronics promises to reduce e-waste problem

Researchers will use materials science and printed electronics to deal with the ever-increasing problem of electronic waste.

January 25, 2021 Read more

Biodegradable displays for sustainable electronics

Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to produce sustainable displays that are largely based on natural materials with the help of industrially relevant production methods.

January 22, 2021 Read more

Electricity from the house wall - the great potential of building facades to capture solar energy

Roofs are not the only suitable places for installing photovoltaic modules to generate electricity from the sun's rays. Facades could also play a much more significant role in the energy transition towards renewables as well as helping to reduce land consumption for energy parks.

January 20, 2021 Read more

Carrot cement: How root vegetables and ash could make concrete more sustainable

Researchers are experimenting with root vegetables and recycled plastic in concrete to see whether this can make it stronger - and more sustainable - and even power streetlights or air pollution sensors.

January 19, 2021 Read more

Researchers develop sustainable catalysis process

Acetals are important chemical compounds that are used, for example, in the production of certain medical agents. A new method now makes their synthesis easier and more environmentally friendly.

January 18, 2021 Read more

Laying the groundwork for real climate neutrality

Aiming to inform policies that lead to real emissions reductions, an EU-backed workshop highlighted four principles for defining CO2 removal from the atmosphere.

January 14, 2021 Read more

SolarEV City concept: Building the next urban power and mobility systems

Unlocking the potentials of EV batteries with roof-top PVs for urban decarbonization.

January 14, 2021 Read more

Concept for a hybrid-electric plane may reduce aviation's air pollution problem

Proposed design could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent, a new study finds.

January 14, 2021 Read more

Impacts of climate change on our water and energy systems: it's complicated

Scientists propose a framework for evaluating climate change adaptations.

January 11, 2021 Read more

Catalyst transforms plastic waste to valuable ingredients at low temperature

For the first time, researchers have used a novel catalyst process to recycle a type of plastic found in everything from grocery bags and food packaging to toys and electronics into liquid fuels and wax.

January 5, 2021 Read more

It's electrifying! This is how Earth could be entirely powered by sustainable energy

Can you imagine a world powered by 100% renewable electricity and fuels? It may seem fantasy, but a collaborative team of scientists has just shown this dream is theoretically possible - if we can garner global buy-in.

December 22, 2020 Read more

New energy conversion layer for biosolar cells

Researchers have produced a semi-artificial electrode that could convert light energy into other forms of energy in biosolar cells. The technique is based on the photosynthesis protein Photosystem I from cyanobacteria.

December 21, 2020 Read more

Electron-producing microbes power sustainable wastewater treatment

The work could someday lead to reduced reliance on the energy-intensive processes that are used to move and treat wastewater.

December 17, 2020 Read more

Climate impacts of food production

The environmental damage arising from the production of foods is not currently reflected in prices. If the consequential costs of the greenhouse gases emitted are determined and added to current food prices, animal products such as milk, cheese and especially meat would have to become far more expensive.

December 15, 2020 Read more

Engineers go microbial to store energy, sequester CO2

By borrowing nature's blueprints for photosynthesis, bioengineers have found a way to efficiently absorb and store large-scale, low-cost renewable energy from the sun - while sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide to use later as a biofuel.

December 15, 2020 Read more