Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

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Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

25 August 202322 August 2023

Research tests whether bioplastics break down in Moreton Bay

Australian Research Council Training Centre for Bioplastics and Biocomposites at The University of Queensland is responding to unprecedented growth in demand for bioderived and biodegradable products with more than 10 million tonnes of plastic waste accumulating in oceans each year

9 September 20225 September 2022

Research centre to tackle global pollution with ‘green’ plastic

Australian scientists will work toward developing bio-derived and bio-degradable plastics that have a minimal environmental impact to make large-scale plastic pollution a problem of the past

3 January 202214 December 2021

Liquid marbles: how this tiny, emerging technology could solve carbon capture and storage problems

The Australian government regards carbon capture and storage as a priority technology, but some critics say it will only allow the fossil fuel industry to continue polluting

18 September 201914 September 2019

Sugarcane research and investment being driven further through Rural R&D for Profit

Sugarcane and cotton waste turned into fuels, plastics, feed

6 March 20199 September 2021

Climate rewind: Scientists turn carbon dioxide back into coal

RMIT researchers using liquid metals as a catalyst to turn the gas back into carbon at room temperature

30 October 201726 October 2017

Leaf Resources enters biodegradable packaging market leveraging Glycell strategy

Innovative biodegradable coating product for the packaging market is based on lignin and also utilizes glycerol

25 January 201723 January 2017

Nanozellulose aus dem Outback zur Verstärkung von Latex

Australische Forscher gewinnen Nanozellulose aus Spinifex-Gras und nutzen diese als Additiv

6 December 20167 December 2016

Scientists, Designers And Students Are Making ‘Vegan Leather’ From Kombucha

Queensland University formed a collaboration for Australia's only kombucha bio-textile research program

21 April 201520 April 2015

Canada’s growing biobased economy to be showcased at the 2015 BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Montreal

Brent Erickson: “We look forward to bringing BIO’s World Congress back to Montreal, where Canadian and American industrial biotechnology companies have formed strong partnerships over the years.”

24 November 201420 November 2014

Australia-India research aims for cheaper fuels and chemicals from agricultural waste

Researcher developed tools that will be sufficiently flexible to be used for minimising supply chain costs in Australia, India and elsewhere

14 November 201413 November 2014

Queensland research: Waterproofing invention ticks all the boxes for sustainability

Lignin-based formulation on food packaging as alternative to cardboard waste

4 November 20143 November 2014

Critics respond to study claiming poor GHG performance of cellulosic biofuels

GCR notifying that using corn crop residue to make ethanol under some conditions can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline

25 June 201424 June 2014

Gates-Stiftung finanziert Vitamin-A-Banane

Eine mit Geldern der Bill-und-Melinda-Gates-Stiftung entwickelte gentechnisch veränderte (gv) Banane, die einen erhöhten Provitamin-A-Gehalt aufweist, steht kurz vor dem entscheidenden Test

22 July 2013

The Cornerstones of Advanced Biofuels

Novel pretreatment technologies are paving the way for the advanced biofuel industry

10 May 2013

Global Partnership Intends to Fight Cassava Viruses

Scientists are struggling to contain a flesh-eating virus sweeping across the cassava plantations of Africa

16 November 2012