Officials in St. Clair County, Michigan, have selected HDR to develop a countywide materials management plan that will integrate sustainable waste solutions, address current solid waste management ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a material that can capture carbon dioxide created by industrial plants in ways previously considered impossible. According to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The manufacture and discard of traditional superabsorbent materials — typically made from synthetic polymers, primarily polyacrylate-based compounds — are affecting the planet.

Plastic is one of the world's biggest pollutants. But a new scientific discovery could transform the industry and its environmental footprint by capturing carbon dioxide from the air and using that to ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new kind of material that could revolutionize multiple industries by ...

Battery electrode materials need to do a lot of things well. They need to be conductors to get charges to and from the ions that shuttle between the electrodes. They also need to have an open ...

New living fungus-based building material repairs itself for over a month, say scientists. The substance that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells was developed by American ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich, a university in Switzerland, have developed a new robotic additive manufacturing method to help make the construction industry more sustainable. Unlike concrete 3D printing, ...

A new material has been developed by Texas researchers that can reportedly offer improved cooling capabilities to data centers. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a new ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Researchers from Michigan State University have developed a wood-based material that can be used inside lithium-ion batteries to prevent potentially dangerous short circuits.

The new cathode material is a crystal composed of sulfur and iodine. The cathode material has a low melting point of 65 Celsius, enabling self-healing of damaged interfaces. A test battery constructed ...