Green Technology

Treated Plastic Waste Good at Grabbing Carbon Dioxide. What seems like a win-win for a pair of pressing environmental problems describes a Rice University lab’s newly discovered chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide ...

Princeton Startup Aims to Fast-track Lithium Battery Recycling. Billions of dead lithium-ion batteries, including many from electric vehicles, are accumulating because there is no cost-effective process to revive them. Now, Princeton researchers have ...

Green, Bio-based Extraction of Rare Earths from Domestic Ores for a Sustainable World. U.S. researchers are partnering with industry collaborators to use a naturally occurring protein to extract and purify rare earth elements (REEs) from abundant, domestic ...

LSU Chemists Unlock the Key to Improving Biofuel and Biomaterial Production. As the world searches for and demands more sustainable sources of energy and materials, plant biomass may provide the solution by serving as a renewable resource for biomaterials ...

Scientists Identify Geological ‘Goldilocks Zone’ for the Formation of Metal Ore Deposits. Scientists from Cardiff University have identified a mechanism through which important metals, crucial to the manufacturing of renewable energy technologies, are ...