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15 August 202514 August 2025

Leaf-inspired design brings bioplastics to the big leagues

Adding cellulose makes bioplastics biodegradable, stronger

5 August 202529 July 2025

Kraftstoffe aus Sonnenlicht?

"Es funktioniert wie ein perfekt synchronisierter Staffellauf"

4 August 20258 August 2025

Ein möglicher Plastikersatz könnte zu stärkeren und umweltfreundlicheren Materialien für den täglichen Gebrauch führen

Universität Houston: Bakterielle Zelluloseblätter haben das Potenzial, Ihre nächste Einweg-Wasserflasche zu werden, und noch vieles mehr

25 July 202522 July 2025

Making fuels from sunlight

Previous efforts to harness solar energy for converting seawater's dissolved carbon into useful products have faced significant challenges

22 July 202516 July 2025

University of Houston Engineer Creates a Possible Replacement for Plastic

Improved Bacterial Cellulose Could Lead to Stronger, Eco-Friendly Materials for Everyday Use

9 January 202511 January 2025

CO2-eating bacteria recycles carbon from chimney smoke directly into new products

New research from Aarhus University has revealed how we can make it much cheaper to capture and convert CO2 from industry for usable products. The research has just been published in Nature Communications

14 June 202410 June 2024

Spider-silk-inspired strong and tough hydrogel fibers with anti-freezing and water retention properties

Researchers from the South China University of Technology developed bionic hydrogel fibers with elaborated ionic crosslinking and crystalline domains

22 February 202419 February 2024

Nanoscale research might help convert CO2 waste into usable products

Researchers used extremely powerful magnification equipment to study at a nanoscale how synthetic materials that catalyze and convert carbon dioxide break down

Forscher decken schwer fassbaren Flaschenhals auf, der die weltweiten Anstrengungen zur Umwandlung von Kohlendioxidabfällen in verwertbare Produkte behindert

Forscher verwendeten extrem starke Vergrößerungsgeräte, um im Nanomaßstab zu untersuchen, wie synthetische Materialien, die Kohlendioxid katalysieren und umwandeln, zerfallen

5 February 202431 January 2024

Look out Spider-Man: naturalistic silk spun from artificial spider gland

Researchers led by Keiji Numata at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan, along with colleagues from the RIKEN Pioneering Research Cluster, have succeeded in creating a device that spins artificial spider silk that closely matches what spiders naturally produce

16 January 20249 January 2024

The extra mile from the lab to industry

Converting the greenhouse gas CO₂ into raw materials for industry using renewable energies: What electrocatalysis can do in theory should be applied as quickly as possible

Die Extrameile vom Labor in die Industrie

Das Treibhausgas CO₂ mittels erneuerbarer Energien in Ausgangsstoffe für die Industrie umwandeln: Was die Elektrokatalyse in der Theorie kann, soll möglichst schnell in die Anwendung

5 October 20232 October 2023

Scientists Use Bacteria to Turn Plastic Into Useful Substances

James Collins from MIT and Ting Lu with the University of Illinois described in a study how to turn plasticwaste into useful products

6 July 20234 July 2023

Using Cyanobacteria to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Glucose

Glucose is the most abundant monosaccharide, serving as an essential energy source for cells and as an important feedstock for the biorefinery industry

20 April 202319 April 2023

Enzyme that Breaks Down PET Plastic

Leipzig scientists increase efficiency

Effizienz gesteigert

Neue Erkenntnisse zum Enzym, das PET-Kunststoff zersetzt

8 February 20236 February 2023

Could natural decay be a solution to plastic pollution after all?

The worm saliva contains enzymes that can dissolve plastic bags and packaging, and NIOZ researchers even proved that plastics can be broken down by sunlight

9 December 20226 December 2022

Modified enzyme brings value to lignin monomers

The chemical industry faces the challenge of replacing fossil-based building blocks with green alternatives. Biomass is an interesting source of carbon-based molecules

Modifiziertes Enzym veredelt Ligninmonomere

Umwandlung von Lignin in wertvolle Chemikalien

22 November 202217 November 2022

Wax worm saliva contains enzymes capable of breaking down plastics

These enzymes are the first and only known enzymes to degrade polyethylene plastic by oxidizing and breaking it down after just a few hours of exposure - without requiring pre-treatment and at room temperature

31 August 202225 August 2022

Scientists develop gel made from spider silk proteins for biomedical applications

Researchers at KI and SLU have discovered that spider silk proteins can be fused to biologically active proteins and be converted into a gel at body temperature

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