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3 January 202518 December 2024

Carbon Dioxide to 3D Printed Carbon Nanocomposites: A Sustainable Innovation

Researchers from the Universities of Delaware and Washington in St. Louis presented a method that uses CO2 as a feedstock, addressing both sustainable material production and greenhouse gas reduction

17 September 20249 October 2024

Modeindustrie: Mischtextilien könnten dank neuer Forschung bald recycelbar sein

Die Modeindustrie produziert unendlich viel Textilabfall, der nicht immer recycelt werden kann. Forschende haben jetzt eine neue Methode für das Recycling von Mischtextilien entwickelt

Chemical recycling of mixed textile waste

Most postconsumer textiles are mixed fibers, complicating mechanical recycling due to material blends and contaminants

19 July 202415 July 2024

Breakthrough in Textile Recycling: Separating Nylon from Cotton

Research team from the University of Delaware, Newark, develop process to recycle textile mixed waste

19 February 20249 October 2024

Mixed Fabrics Could Now Be Recycled Thanks to New Research

The fashion industry has an overconsumption problem, producing endless textile waste that can’t always be recycled. Researchers have developed a new method for recycling blended textiles that could increase the amount of clothes that find a second life

8 July 20226 July 2022

Artificial photosynthesis can produce food without sunshine

Scientists are developing artificial photosynthesis to help make food production more energy-efficient here on Earth, and one day possibly on Mars

11 February 20228 February 2022

Short circuit for big impact

UD researchers report hyper-efficient method for removing carbon dioxide from air

Bahnbrechende Technologie zur Entfernung von 99% des Kohlendioxids aus der Luft

Fortschritt bei der Kohlenstoffabscheidung könnte umweltfreundliche Brennstoffzellen der Marktreife näher bringen

1 February 202231 January 2022

Creating value from Waste

University of Delaware (UD) researchers report low-pressure method to convert industrially processed biomass into plastics, chemicals

18 January 202213 January 2022

Sustainable manufacturing

UD and LSU collaborate to advance manufacturing technologies that employ carbon dioxide and renewable energy

3 March 202126 February 2021

Chemists close in on greener way to make plastics

Conventional polyethylene production could one day be replaced by chemical reactors that rely on renewable energy and consume carbon dioxide

11 November 20209 September 2021

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $27 Million in Plastics Recycling Research and Development

All new projects will help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products

17 April 202011 April 2020

Upgrading Biomass with Selective Surface-Modified Catalysts

Scientists have designed a catalyst composed of very low concentrations of platinum on the surface of titanium dioxide

29 November 201926 November 2019

The push to develop more bioplastics continues, despite dubious benefits

There seems to be a huge contest to see who can make plastic - specifically bioplastics - out of the weirdest stuff

11 September 20198 September 2019

A new way to make valuable chemicals

Research creates process that advances the field of carbon utilization

20 August 20199 September 2021

From greenhouse gas to fuel

Novel catalysis approach reduces carbon dioxide to methane

14 February 201911 February 2019

UD researchers synthesize renewable oils for use in lubricants

Findings report a strategy to create renewable lubricant base oils efficiently from non-food biomass

11 January 20197 January 2019

The BioIncredibles 2: iMicrobes is using methane to produce chemicals, and Mikey the Microbe Likes It

The achievement of a major proof of concept is the news, in the case of Industrial Microbes - the ability to convert methane into multiple products

14 November 20189 November 2018

Indian Association has big plans after announcing $150m investment

Group received last summer a license to grow industrial hemp on a pilot basis in Uttarakand as first licensed hemp grow in the country since 1958

4 October 20189 September 2021

Umwandlung von Kohlendioxid

Forscher der University of Delaware entwickeln neuartige Zwei-Stufen-CO₂-Konversionstechnologie

29 August 20189 September 2021

Transforming carbon dioxide

UD researchers develop novel two-step CO₂ conversion technology

1 August 201830 July 2018

New process turns wood scraps into tape

UD engineers convert commonly discarded material into high-performance adhesive

14 June 201813 June 2018

Innovative Process for Breaking Down Lignin in Scrap Wood to Make Adhesive Tapes

Engineers at the University of Delaware have developed a novel process to make tape out of a major component of trees and plants called lignin

20 September 201718 September 2017

Researchers invent new one-step process for extracting sugars from biomass

Their new process requires only one step to separate out the sugars from the lignin

18 September 201714 September 2017

A sweeter way to make green products

Researchers invent novel process for extracting sugars from wood

15 May 201728 April 2017

Discovery could transform industries

Researchers invent process to make sustainable rubber, plastics

18 January 201713 January 2017

Bubble Trouble: No more shampoo goo, via a nifty biobased chemical technology

A new chemical process to combine fatty acids from soybeans or coconut and sugar-derived rings from corn to make a renewable soap molecule called Oleo-Furan-Surfactant

14 December 201612 December 2016

UMass Amherst Chemical Engineers Lead Team that Boosts Valuable Chemical p-xylene Production from Biomass

Researchers developed new method that generates a 97 percent yield and uses biomass feedstocks

15 February 201613 February 2016

Methanotrophs technology on the rise

Calysta announced the formation of Methanotroph.org, a research community and a web source for methanotroph information

26 August 201524 August 2015

DOE funds 2 algae biomass projects under Carbon Capture Program

16 projects to receive funding through Carbon Capture Program, including two focused on algae

5 June 20153 June 2015

MHG expands research and development capabilities through exclusive arrangement with The University of Georgia

The Biopolymer Company is granted access to equipment at UGA to increase research opportunities

14 May 20149 September 2021

Billige Chemie dank CO2

Liquid Lights neues Prototypsystem entwickelt aus Kohlendioxid Ethylenglykol

18 December 201317 December 2013

Green Innovator: Turning Chicken Feathers and Plant Fiber Into Eco-Leather, Bio-Based Circuit Boards

EPA Award to University of Delaware's Richard Wool for his extensive work developing bio-based materials

17 December 201316 December 2013

American Chemical Society & EPA honor winners of the 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

University of Delaware, Faraday Technology, Inc., Life Technologies Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company and Cargill, Inc. honored as 2013 winners

21 November 201322 November 2013

Unlocking the universe of biobased (and not so biobased) materials

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, exotic materials are brought from outer space, but in the Digest Cinematic Universe, the most transformative materials are all around you. - Possibly in your trash.

17 June 2013

Making alternative fuels cheaper

Chemical engineers’ new synthesis could make biofuel more appealing for mass production

29 November 2012

Anellotech licenses p-xylene technology from UMass Amherst

Economical production of renewable p-xylene from non-food biomass with lower-cost renewable PET possible

25 May 2012

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