When the going gets tough for certain bacteria, they form into spores that can withstand the harshest of environments. Scientists have now utilized that fact to produce "living plastic" that biodegrades – but only under specific conditions.

An environmentally-friendly preparation of plant material from pine could serve as a substitute for petroleum-based chemicals in polyurethane foams.

In the race to meet the growing global demand for lithium — a critical component in batteries for electric vehicles — a team of researchers from Rice University’s Elimelech lab has developed a breakthrough lithium extraction method that…

As global demand for lithium skyrockets, this newly devised method could be a huge boon for lithium production.

A bacterial energy storage system is modified to make polymers.

Charge separation occurs spontaneously at the solid–liquid interface, forming an electric double layer. Previous methods, including streaming current, used to harvest the constantly separated charge in micron-sized and larger systems reported negligible power…

Nature Catalysis - Hydrocarbon selectivity in photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction has been limited due to a lack of low-overpotential catalysts and high-photovoltage semiconductors. Here Cu...

Jackpot! Gold from e-waste opens a rich vein for miners and the environment









An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University has deve

Whilst termites are infamous for causing economic damages and destruction of property, their ability to naturally produce hydrogen is virtually unheard of. Could they be used to solve the energy crisis?

Its vast investment in solar, wind and batteries is on track to end an era of global growth in the use of coal, oil and gas, the researchers said.

In The Matrix, human beings are a literal (and metaphorical) power source – specifically, they supply bio-electricity to our AI overlords. Fortunately, enslavement to robotic masters in a virtual-reality prison is completely unnecessary for biochemistry to…

Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way

Nature Climate Change - Green subsidies (carrots) are now becoming a more politically acceptable climate policy option compared with corrective regulations (sticks). However, researcher show that...