Makusu Tsutsui
Nanocoil device for portable DNA sequencing
05.09.2025
Osaka researchers present a nanodevice that unzips DNA with minimal energy, supporting accurate sequencing and personalized medicine.
Flexible solutions for medical technology
12.11.2024
Freudenberg Medical, an experienced partner to the medical technology industry, presented product highlights at COMPAMED.
Fraunhofer IAP / Till Budde
Environmentally friendly PFAS-free polymer membranes
28.08.2024
PFAS-free polymer membrane is an environmentally friendly alternative to the PFAS-containing membranes previously used in the semiconductor industry.
Suppliers focus on sustainability
17.06.2024
How do exhibitors contribute to the reusability of products and thus to a more sustainable product life cycle?
Empa
Cellulose aerogel combines sustainability with high-tech
24.04.2024
Empa researchers have developed a 3D-printable, biodegradable cellulose aerogel that combines pioneering properties.
Ken Sakaushi National Institute for Materials Science
AI boosts green hydrogen production with platinum-free electrodes
28.03.2024
NIMS Japan developed AI that speeds up the discovery of materials for green hydrogen, advancing sustainable energy and materials science.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
New hydrogel for seawater desalination
18.03.2024
UPC develops thermosensitive hydrogel for solar-powered desalination and smart biomedical adhesives in diagnostics and semi-invasive therapy.
TU Bergakademie Freiberg / Andreas Hiekel
Basis for innovative PFAS filter made of clay
06.12.2023
PFAS filters use costly activated carbon - researchers seek cheaper alternatives to tackle these persistent "eternal toxins."
coffeekai
Recycling model for the plastics industry
30.11.2023
Profs Kümmerer and Endres aim to create a sustainable recycling model for the plastics industry at Leuphana and Leibniz Universities.
eakkachaih
Human focus: knowledge and assistance in production
01.11.2023
A Fraunhofer IPK trend report highlights how supporting workers, preserving know-how, and maintaining employability are key goals for companies.
Nick Fewings / Unsplash
Plastic production via advanced recycling lowers GHG emissions
17.10.2023
Advanced recycling of post-use plastic cuts GHG emissions and boosts U.S. recycling, says DOE Argonne Lab study.
Fraunhofer IDMT/Anika Bödecker
Vital data: the whole body on the radar
04.10.2023
Fraunhofer IDMT researchers developed a radar-based method to collect and analyze vital signs, offering a new approach to non-contact health monitoring.
Rimidolove
Sustainable materials and recycling
19.09.2023
Where are the difficulties and how can the the industry become more sustainable, despite strict safety regulations?
Empa
Sustainability: wood instead of plastic?
06.09.2023
Could manufacturers even do without plastics to become more sustainable?
K. Selsam/Fraunhofer ISC
CircEl-Paper: Recyclable paper-based electronics
06.06.2023
Billions of tons of electronic waste are produced in the EU every year. With a novel approach, the new EU project "CircEl-Paper" could sustainably improve the recycling process for electronics in the future.
Fraunhofer IAP
Smart materials for aligner therapy
25.04.2023
Clinically effective, custom-made, discreet and comfortable - the demands on aligners for the therapy of malocclusions are high. This also applies to the material of these orthodontic splints. A team has now developed a highly innovative material that enables completely new treatment concepts and reduces costs. The scientists focused on polymers with shape memory properties.
DECHEMA e.V.
Recovery of battery metals - project launch of Metallico
18.04.2023
How can battery metals such as lithium, cobalt, copper, manganese and nickel be recycled in a sustainable way? This question is in the focus of the new EU project METALLICO, in which DECHEMA is also involved. 23 partners from nine countries will optimize five innovative processes for the recovery of those metals and subsequently demonstrate these in case studies on an industrially relevant scale.
Gerd Altmann / Pixabay
Using AI to design innovative materials
11.04.2023
Advanced materials become increasingly complex due to the high requirements they have to fulfill regarding sustainability and applicability. Dierk Raabe and colleagues reviewed the use of artificial intelligence in materials science and the untapped spaces it opens if combined with physics-based simulations.
MPI-IS
Sustainability for biodegradable artificial muscles
28.03.2023
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, at Johannes Kepler University and at University of Colorado Boulder developed fully biodegradable, high-performance artificial muscles. Their research project marks another step towards green technology becoming a lasting trend in the field of soft robotics.
XING Ruirui
Researchers develop biodegradable, biorecyclable glass
22.03.2023
A research group led by Prof. YAN Xuehai from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a family of eco-friendly glass of biological origin fabricated from biologically derived amino acids or peptides.
DITF
Carbon fibers based on wood
14.03.2023
The DITF have developed a sustainable and cost-saving process to produce carbon fibers from lignin. This is an inexpensive raw material that is available in large quantities and is a waste product in paper production. The process offers high energy-saving potential and is particularly environmentally friendly. It uses natural, renewable raw materials and does not require solvents.
Georgia Tech
New ultrafast water disinfection method more environmentally friendly
23.02.2023
Having safe drinking water is vital for public health, but traditional methods of disinfection cause their own environmental problems. Chlorine is cheap and easy to use in centralized water systems, but at the expense of harmful chemical byproducts.
Laura Schirrmeister
Degradation of plastic waste using newly developed biocatalysts
14.02.2023
The plastic materials polyurethane and polyvinyl alcohol can now be degraded under mild conditions with the help of enzymes as biocatalysts. Scientists from the University of Greifswald have developed corresponding methods together with the German company Covestro and teams from Leipzig and Dublin, as recently published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., in two separate articles.