Polycarbonates are all around us: in your plastic drinks bottle; the lenses of your glasses; and the scratch-resistant coating on your phones CDs and DVDs. But they are made from crude oil, a finite resource, making them unsustainable.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
16 Jun 2017
To address some of the serious concerns surrounding the methods in which oil is removed from water in the event of a serious spill, such as those that have occurred several times over the past few decades around the world, a team of Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a way in which up to 99.9% of the oil is removed from water.
By Benedette Cuffari
16 Jun 2017
Circular economy is an industrial system that aims to avoid waste through the design of optimised cycles of products, components and materials by keeping them at their highest utility and value; it’s a perfect match for e-products which tend to use rare elements that are of...
By James Dorrian
16 May 2017
A carbon-free energy economy using hydrogen as a clean energy source has been a dream of many scientists since the hydrogen economy was first proposed in the 1970s. The reaction of hydrogen with oxygen produces only energy and water, making it the ideal clean energy source.
By Emily Nordvang
5 May 2017
An international group of researchers have reported a novel idea for membraneless water filtration using directed particle motion caused by the chemical gradient that results from simply dissolving CO2 in water.
By Emily Nordvang
5 May 2017
The manufacturing and transportation process of water is particularly wasteful, as it is estimated that over 17 million barrels of oil are required to produce plastic bottles each year, which is enough energy to power 1.3 million cars and 190,000 homes in a single year
Researchers from the Qingdao University in China recently conducted a research initiative that looked at how this multi-functional biological plant could be used as a potential semiconductor.
By Benedette Cuffari
11 Apr 2017
As the quest to discover new and renewable sources of energy is becoming of increasing interest to researchers around the world, a system that integrates this graphene-based electrode could ensure the place of solar electricity as becoming a major source of energy in the future.
By Benedette Cuffari
5 Apr 2017
A graphene-oxide membrane capable of removing common salts from seawater – leaving clean drinkable water – has the potential to be a game-changer when it comes to affordable desalinisation technology, especially in places where large scale plants are unfeasible.
The future of clean technology is promising, and while we cannot correct the damage that has already been done, there is still hope in our ability to adapt for the better.
By Benedette Cuffari
31 Mar 2017