Turning Ocean Plastic into Sportswear

In 2018, Adidas created a global movement with Run For The Oceans, uniting nearly one million runners from around the world and raising $1 million for long-term partner, Parley for the Oceans. To date, the money raised has helped directly educate and … Weiterlesen …

A Foam Bath for Ores

Critical raw materials, such as copper, cobalt, and rare earth metals, are of strategic importance to the economy. However, the ore grain size of many of these metals in deposits are too small to be separated using the standard process … Weiterlesen …

A Hot Glue Gun for Healing

Most serious injuries are currently treated with pins and stitches, which have many drawbacks. For the patient, they are very painful, leave scars, require high skill from the doctor, and sometimes have to be removed after the tissues heal. Medical … Weiterlesen …

Canada Creates Fuel from Air

Jonathan Wilkinson is the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard. Recently, he announced an investment of CAN$25 million (about 17 million Euros) in Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE), a Canadian clean energy company that is pioneering technologies to capture and … Weiterlesen …

Improving Straw Paper Production

Trident Limited is the world’s largest manufacturer of wheat straw-based paper. The company is one of India’s preferred suppliers of high quality paper for multi-color high-speed printing, publishing, and branded copier paper. It focuses on being eco-friendly and is the first … Weiterlesen …

Energy Conversion and Water Splitting

An international team led by chemist Tom Nilges from the Technical University of Munich and engineer Karthik Shankar from the University of Alberta have now found a stable yet flexible semiconductor structure that splits water much more efficiently than was previously possible. An inorganic double-helix … Weiterlesen …

A Silent Air Taxi

Four years of preparation, various patent applications, several strategic partnerships and the founding of e.SAT GmbH have paved the way for an invention that could be tomorrow’s environmentally friendly mode of transportation: electro-hybrid airplanes. Now, e.SAT, RWTH Aachen University, RWTH Aachen Campus and Aachen University of … Weiterlesen …

Powering Jets With Plastic Waste

A research group from Washington State University has successfully produced jet fuel by melting plastic waste at high temperatures using an activated carbon catalyst (a processed form of carbon with increased surface area). “Waste plastic is a huge problem worldwide,” said Professor Hanwu … Weiterlesen …

Take the Air out of Tires

The so-called Uptis prototype is part of Michelin’s strategy for research and development in sustainable mobility, as the French company told. The concept has four main pillars of innovation: airless, connected, 3D-printed, and 100% sustainable—i.e., entirely renewable or bio-sourced materials. … Weiterlesen …

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