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27 February 202521 February 2025

Nanoscale tin catalyst discovery paves the way for sustainable CO2 conversion

Researchers have developed a sustainable catalyst that increases its activity during use while converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable products. This discovery offers a blueprint for designing next-generation electrocatalysts

Weg für eine nachhaltige CO2-Umwandlung: Zinnkatalysator im Nanomaßstab

Forscher haben einen nachhaltigen Katalysator entwickelt, der seine Aktivität während der Nutzung steigert und dabei Kohlendioxid (CO2) in wertvolle Produkte umwandelt. Diese Entdeckung liefert ein Modell für die Entwicklung von Elektrokatalysatoren der nächsten Generation

16 September 202410 September 2024

Upcycling excess carbon dioxide with tiny microbes

Researchers reporting in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering have rewired one such microbe to help tackle greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

Upcycling von überschüssigem Kohlendioxid mit winzigen Mikroben

Wissenschaftler haben Mikroben speziell dazu gebracht, Kohlendioxid in Chemikalien umzuwandeln, die potenzielle Bausteine für Arzneimittel sind

4 April 202428 March 2024

Research lights up process for turning CO2 into sustainable fuel

Researchers have successfully transformed CO2 into methanol by shining sunlight on single atoms of copper deposited on a light-activated material, a discovery that paves the way for creating new green fuels

4 March 202428 February 2024

How plants could make steel more sustainable

Growing regulations on industry sustainability are setting companies on a race to adopt cleaner alternatives

27 October 202324 October 2023

Chemicals from thin air: gas fermentation and the future of bio-manufacturing

Commercialisation is just beginning and researchers across both sectors are still finding ways to diversify the suite of functional gas-eating microbes and make them produce chemicals efficiently

11 February 20206 February 2020

MEGaproject: UPM and its $600M gambit in renewable chemicals

Company chewed through a lengthy evaluation process for a technology partner, and ultimately selected supercritical technology and tapped Renmatix as the partner

27 January 20209 September 2021

Could bacteria help recycle greenhouse gases in the future?

Could bacteria assist in the recycling of greenhouse gases in the future instead of releasing them into the atmosphere?

Bakterien gegen Industrieabgase?

Könnten Bakterien in Zukunft helfen, Treibhausgase zu verwerten, statt sie in die Atmosphäre zu blasen?

14 December 201811 December 2018

Biome Technologies awarded further funding to scale solutions to plastic waste

Government's £6 million programme aims to use industrial biotechnology techniques to produce a new range of sustainable polymers

3 December 201828 November 2018

Green and edible cling film and food packaging made from plants

Nottingham research team is working on plastic films derived from konjac flour and starch, cellulose or proteins that are fully edible and harmless if accidentally eaten

20 November 20189 September 2021

Chemischer Wertstoff aus Abgasen

Partner aus Forschung und Industrie sind dabei, aus Kohlendioxid und Wasserstoff die Grundchemikalie 3-Hydroxypropansäure biotechnologisch herzustellen. Herkömmliche Kohlenstoffquellen scheinen bislang aber wirtschaftlicher zu sein

1 February 201830 January 2018

Ingenza embarks on ConBioChem collaboration

Company aims to develop new industrial biotech-based routes to commodity chemicals

19 January 201828 April 2018

Review: The Potential of Cold Plasma for Safe and Sustainable Food Production

Diversity of action-mechanisms of cold plasma and its flexibility as a standalone technology provide a rich resource for driving innovative solutions

24 October 201723 October 2017

Nicola Everitt: ‘People have shrimp waste they need to do something with, so why not make reusable bags’

University of Nottingham researcher is looking how to make biodegradable ‘green’ shopping bags from shellfish food waste

29 August 201724 August 2017

Chitosan, a sleeping giant waiting to be woken

In the last three years, science has gone on and discovered many new applications

11 August 20179 August 2017

Don’t be selfish, save the shellfish! Shellfish are more useful than ever imagined

There are more and more every day uses for waste shells often destined for landfills

23 February 201721 February 2017

Spinnenseide als Hightech-Verbandsstoff

Forscher der Universität Nottingham entwickeln medizinisch funktionale Bio-Wundauflage

‘We could make that!’ — chance meeting leads to creation of antibiotic spider silk

University of Nottingham researchers developed technique to produce chemically functionalised spider silk for medical devices

23 January 201719 January 2017

Surf and Earth: How prawn shopping bags could save the planet

Engineering research team developed chitosan-based biodegradable plastics

12 June 201510 June 2015

Wheat DDGS could form viable alternative to imported soya

A four-year research project has shown that using a co-product from bioethanol production can be used as an alternative protein to feed pigs

13 April 20159 September 2021

Kohlenstoffhaltige Synthesegase als Alternative zu stärke- oder zuckerhaltigen Substraten

Forschungscluster will mikrobielle Gasfermentation voranbringen

14 August 20149 September 2021

Carbon dioxide ‘sponge’ could ease transition to cleaner energy

New emerging technology called integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) to be integrated into power plant smokestacks

2 June 20141 June 2014

Opportunities in Fuels and Chemicals from Syngas and Methane Fermentation

Conference on July, 16 to explore technologies being developed and their commercial potential

20 December 201319 December 2013

£18M for 13 unique industry-academia Networks in Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy

13 new cross-disciplinary research communities

25 July 2013

World changing technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air

Researchers discover nitrogen-fixing bacteria to deposit into cells of plant roots

2 July 20139 September 2021

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