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A Silky-Smooth Alternative to Microplastics
The EU has already declared that the nonbiodegradable microplastics must be eliminated by 2025, but a team of MIT scientists has perhaps expedited that timeline.
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
Create the Future Design Contest: Success Story - Plastic-Eating Enzymes Chomp into the Future
A polymer breaking enzyme when infused into plastic causes the material to break down into its original components when submerged in compost or even warm water.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Unprinting Method Removes Toner with Xenon Light
A new way to unprint paper uses intense pulsed light from a xenon lamp.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Organic Steam Generator Uses Sunlight to Purify Water
Researchers have developed an inexpensive and eco-friendly steam generator to desalinate and purify water using sunlight.
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Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
Pushing the Boundaries of Sustainability in Global Materials
Sustainability isn’t just about making sure your discarded water bottle is recycled. It’s also about teaming with global entities to form innovative, technologically solid partnerships.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Method Recycles Facemasks into Roads to Combat COVID-Generated Waste
Making one kilometer of a two-lane road would use up about three million masks.
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Will Battery Recycling Efforts Take Off?

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Briefs: Materials
Recycled Cotton Becomes New Fabric
A method converts cotton into sugar, which can be turned into spandex, nylon, or ethanol.
Podcasts: Energy
Here's an Idea: Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries from Electric Vehicles
Canadian battery recycling company Li-Cycle is leveraging its sustainable process to provide an end-of-life solution for lithium-ion batteries.
Briefs: Energy
Cleaner Water Through Corn
Activated carbon made from corn stover filters 98 percent of a pollutant from water.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Recycling Battery Parts Without Crushing or Melting
The method replenishes lithium in electrodes while keeping the existing structure intact.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Chemistry Discovery Could Remove Micropollutants from the Environment
This approach could result in developing chemical sensors that are sensitive at a very low level to a specific chemical in the environment.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Tires Turned into Graphene Make Stronger Concrete
An optimized flash process could reduce carbon emissions.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Special Section: The Winners of the 2021 'Create the Future' Design Contest
See this year's product designs from engineers, students, and entrepreneurs worldwide.
Articles: Materials
2021 Create the Future Design Contest: Sustainable Technologies/Future Energy Category Winner — Multifunctional Bionanocomposite Fruit Coatings
The invention could capture the potential of the edible packaging market.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2021 Create the Future Design Contest Grand Prize Winner: Self Destructing Plastics via Embedded Enzymes
Once triggered, the enzyme-embedded plastics self-destruct, completely degrading and eliminating microplastics in days.
Question of the Week: Green Design & Manufacturing
Will Coatings Reduce Food Waste?

Today’s lead story highlighted an egg-based coating that extends the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.

Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
A New Use for Leftover Eggs: Preserving Produce
A micron-thick coating, made largely from leftover eggs, can extend the shelf life of the fruits and vegetables in your refrigerator.
Question of the Week: Materials
Will Technology Help to Reduce Plastic Pollution?

Our October Q&A in Tech Briefs highlighted an achievement from Professor Aaron Sadow of Ames Laboratory in Iowa. Sadow’s chemical process produces valuable biodegradable chemicals from discarded plastics, which are then used as surfactants and detergents in a range of applications.

Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
With Enzymes, A 'Create the Future' Winner Builds Self-Destructing Plastic
The 2021 Create the Future Design Contest winner wants to build a truly recyclable bioplastic.
Q&A: Materials
Q&A: Plastics Could See Second Life as Biodegradable Surfactants
A chemical process produces valuable biodegradable chemicals from discarded plastics.
Briefs: Energy
Microbe Turns Waste into Industrial Chemical
The method could be applied to carbon waste streams.
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UpFront: October 2021 Tech Briefs
NASA reveals winners of a CO2 conversion challenge.
Briefs: Energy
Technology Converts Waste Plastics to Jet Fuel
The reaction converts 90% of plastic to jet fuel and other valuable hydrocarbon products within an hour at moderate temperatures.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Metal-Free, Recyclable Polypeptide Battery Degrades on Demand
The new battery is degradable, recyclable, non-toxic, and safer than lithium-ion batteries.
Briefs: Energy
Sustainable Aluminum-Anode Batteries
The rechargeable batteries could be a safer and more environmentally friendly alternative to lithium-ion batteries.
Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
An Electronics Recycling Approach Gets the Most Out of Nanowires
Researchers at North Carolina State University demonstrated a low-cost technique for retrieving — and then reusing — nanowires from electronic devices.
Briefs: Materials
Method Turns Discarded Plastic into Surfactants
The chemical process turns plastic into biodegradable chemicals for surfactants and detergents.

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