Chemistry, Nano & Materials

New PET-like plastic made directly from waste biomass

PhysOrg: It is becoming increasingly obvious that moving away from fossil fuels and avoiding the accumulation of plastics in the environment are key to addressing the challenge of climate change. In that vein, there are considerable efforts to develop degradable…

Conservationists in court bid to halt $16bn Scarborough gas project citing damage to barrier reef

The Guardian: An environment group has launched a legal bid to halt a $16bn gas development in Western Australia, arguing the effect of its greenhouse gas emissions on the Great…

‘It keeps on going’: driving the world’s first production-ready solar car

The Guardian: Winding past the ochre-coloured plateaux of the Bardenas Reales natural park in northern Spain, Roel Grooten nudged me to take my foot off the accelerator. The car continued…

Flexible perosvkite solar cell sets efficiency record

C&EN: Aperovskite solar cell has set a new efficiency record for flexible thin-film photovoltaics, with an independently-verified power conversion efficiency of 24.4%, (Nat. Energy 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41560-022-01045-2). The device is a tandem cell, and beats the previous flexible thin-film champ…