From fiber-based cosmetic packaging to recyclable fungi, these companies hope to advance the beauty industry’s sustainability ...

Bengaluru school students marked Makar Sankranti with a focus on sustainability by creating kites using recycled and ...

Fungi have more to offer than meets the eye. Their thread-like cells, which grow extensively and out of sight underground like a network of roots, offer huge potential for producing sustainable, ...

Mango Materials, a California-based company that creates biodegradable polymers for use in plastic products, has been scaling up and commercializing a biomanufacturing technology that utilizes methane ...

Why the electronics industry is struggling to clean up its act The role that biodegradable materials can play in the sector An inside look at Infineon’s efforts in sustainable electronics Power ...

Every year, over 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced. About five percent of that ends up in rivers and eventually the sea, or is thrown directly into the ocean by the fishing industry. Plastic, ...

What are Biodegradable Metallic Materials? Biodegradable materials (BMs) have been a priority for temporary biomedical implants over the past twenty years. These materials, including magnesium, zinc, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a huge demand for disposable face coverings, like face masks. 1 While an important tool against the spread of the virus, these are typically made of synthetic polymers like ...

UD engineers are the lead inventors on a new patent for making piezoelectric devices, such as sensors and actuators, using Nodax®, a biodegradable, bio-based polymer. Every year, more than 400 million ...

A team of scientists from Zhengzhou University and the University of South Australia (UniSA) has developed a biodegradable cooling film that can passively reduce surface temperatures by as much as ...