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Davie and Université Laval Partnership Could Pave Way for a Greener Shipbuilding Industry

Davie is pleased to announce a new partnership with world-renowned researchers at Université Laval to explore the conditions required to safely use green ammonia in a conventional diesel engine with the goal of bringing this new technology to market.

21 Nov 2022

Fast-Food Rubbish Solution in Sustainable Seaweed-Based Wrapper

Flinders University materials researchers and pioneering German biomaterials developer one • five are using seaweed extracts to develop next-generation biopolymer coating materials that could solve packaging waste dilemmas for the fast-food industry.

18 Oct 2022

Overcoming the Challenge of Soil Pollution

Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a new method for tracking and measuring how polymer biodegrades, if at all, in soil.

17 Oct 2022

Sustainable Energy Storage Derived From Seaweed

Recently, a group of researchers based in Bristol have developed nanomaterials that incorporate seaweed into their makeup to produce a robust battery separator. The separators could herald a new wave of greener and more efficient energy storage devices.

7 Oct 2022

Novel Eco-Friendly Alternative to Conventional Cooling Systems

Researchers at MIT have developed a sophisticated eco-friendly solution in a system that utilizes passive cooling to preserve food crops and support traditional air conditioners in buildings. The system does not need an active power supply and requires only a small amount of water to enable it to run.

22 Sep 2022

Speeding Up the Transition to Electric Vehicles

Researchers from UNSW Sydney have designed a high-speed magnetically driven motor that could reduce the dependency on rare earth materials in EV manufacturing and increase the driving range of EVs.

14 Sep 2022

Employing Biological Materials to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Valuable Products

Assistant Professor Ariel Furst and her colleagues are looking to DNA to help guide the process.

8 Sep 2022

Sustainable Human Exploration of Mars

MIT researchers have devised the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), which has been generating an oxygen supply and could help answer some of the questions about how to make the most of an atmosphere abundant in carbon dioxide.

1 Sep 2022

Existing Air Conditioners Could Someday Get an Upgrade with a Solid “Greener” Refrigerant

Summer is in full swing in the U.S., and people are turning up their air conditioners to beat the heat. But the hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants in these and other cooling devices are potent greenhouse gases and major drivers of climate change.

23 Aug 2022