10 October 20256 October 2025 Turning plastic waste into fuel UD researchers and collaborators develop new catalyst to accelerate upcycling of plastics
16 January 202513 January 2025 How much is the US bioeconomy worth? We investigate different estimates for its value and how much certain sub-sectors are predicted to grow over the coming years
3 December 202428 November 2024 Breakthrough in capturing ‘hot’ CO2 from industrial exhaust A metal-organic framework, or MOF, is capable of capturing CO2 at extreme temperatures
Durchbruch bei der Abscheidung von “heißem” CO2 aus Industrieabgasen Ein metallorganisches Gerüst ist in der Lage, CO2 bei extremen Temperaturen abzuscheiden
23 May 202422 May 2024 5 Minutes With… Professor Paul Freemont, Head of Structural & Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London "To support commercialisation of the bioeconomy we need to have relevant standards and metrics"
28 November 202223 November 2022 This Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks An easily synthesized chemical filter could stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere
14 October 202210 October 2022 Biden’s $2 Billion Bioeconomy Plan Puts Biomanufacturing At Heart Of Federal Policy How the plan marks a sea change in US green policymaking
16 November 20209 September 2021 Room Temperature Conversion of CO2 to CO: A New Way to Synthesize Hydrocarbons New method could potentially reduce carbon dioxide emission into the atmosphere and slash costs of chemical manufacturing
Raumtemperatur-Umwandlung von CO2 in CO: Ein neuer Weg zur Synthese von Kohlenwasserstoffen Neue Methode könnte potenziell den Dioxidausstoß in die Atmosphäre reduzieren und die Kosten der chemischen Produktion senken
17 September 201912 September 2019 Sun Chemical SunPak FSP inks set new standard in eco-friendly food packaging The new SunPak® FSP, which is based on renewable bio-based materials, has been independently tested to prove the high level of its environmental sustainability
17 May 201815 May 2018 Can This Invasive Exotic Pest Make Better Materials for Industry and Medicine? A NIST team has measured the best wood-to-pest ratio for the design of new composites
30 March 201724 March 2017 Silk Sensor Could Speed Development of New Infrastructure, Aerospace and Consumer Materials Researchers have developed a way to embed a nanoscale damage-sensing probe into a lightweight composite made of epoxy and silk
25 June 201425 June 2014 All-Natural Mixture Yields Promising Fire Retardant NIST researchers develop environmentally benign fire-retardant bio-based coating that features five repeating four-layer stacks, each consisting of chitosan, DNA, chitosan, and clay
