Financial Times: Martin Roscheisen was once at the vanguard of the solar industry, leading a start-up backed by Google’s founders that was set to usher in a green revolution by…
IMechE: Construction has begun on a new plastic recycling facility aimed at ‘solving the global plastic crisis’. The Teesside facility, which will recycle all forms of plastic, is the…
IMechE: A lightweight foam made of copper nanowires could offer efficient and durable air filtration for face masks, researchers have claimed. The team, from Georgetown University in Washington DC, said the recyclable and easily decontaminated material could also be used…
New York Times: Marty Odlin, who grew up and lives on the Maine coast, remembers what the ocean used to be like. But now, he said, “It’s like a desert and just within my lifetime.” In the last few years, he said,…
Materials Today: For the first time, researchers at Northwestern University have created borophane – an atomically thin boron material that is stable at standard temperatures and air pressures. They report this advance in a paper in Science. Researchers have long been excited by the promise of borophene – a single-atom-thick…
