A new process for making biomimetic materials.
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Have Your Cake…and Eat the Packaging Too
Researchers study chickpea flour as a potential building block for biodegradable (and edible) packaging materials.
Green Production of Chemicals
Chemists developed a new biocatalytic material for green production of value-added chemicals.
New Customized Compostable Materials
A Spanish consortium of indutry and science is seeking for new compostable materials for mass-market single-use products like tableware, packages and single-use bags.
New from Old: Auspicious Renewable Raw Material
Waste from paper and pulp industry supplies raw material for the development of new redox flow batteries.
Learning from Ants
A calculation method based on a natural phenomenon helps to optimize lightweight laminates.
Making PVC Fit for Biomedical Applications
A novel class of reactive plasticizer can avoid the problem of migration of the additive from the polymer matrix.
Towards High Gas Barrier Thin Films – A Simple and Eco-Friendly Process
Reaearchers from Texas A&M demonstrate a process to apply a super gas barrier to plastic packaging films using only polymers in a water-based solution
New ultrafiltration membrane for offshore application
GE’s new ZeeWeed* 700B Ultrafiltration membrane for seawater pretreatment, removal of sulfate and suspended solids.
Hydrothermal Polymerization of Polyimides
Miriam Unterlass investigates benign alternative polymerization process yielding polymers that are typically only conceivable under harsh conditions.
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