Water-Treated Wood Emerges as Strong, Moldable Rival to Plastic
Researchers have transformed natural wood into a strong, moldable and water-resistant material through a room-temperature hydroplasticization process that could replace ...
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Sustainable orthodontics: what a systematic review of five studies really found
A new systematic review finds only five primary studies with direct environmental evidence in orthodontics, revealing hazardous aligner incineration emissions, ...
Flash Joule Heating Transforms Toxic E-Waste Plastics Into Antimony Goldmine
Rice University researchers have developed isothermal-clamped flash Joule heating, a seconds-long electrothermal process that recovers roughly 90 percent of antimony ...
Europe Needs a New Breed of Materials Scientist, Researchers Warn in Landmark Training Blueprint
European researchers argue that Safe and Sustainable-by-Design materials innovation is being held back by fragmented expertise and propose a coordinated ...
From Farm Waste to Food Packaging: Nanocellulose Emerges as a Sustainable Materials Powerhouse
A comprehensive new review maps the full pathway of biomass-derived nanocellulose from agricultural waste extraction through green processing to advanced ...
Portable MRI Cuts Carbon Emissions While Bringing Brain Imaging to Remote Canada
A new study finds that portable ultra-low-field MRI in a remote Canadian community consumes up to 17 times less energy ...
Bamboo Emerges as a Fast-Growing Rival to Gasoline and Diesel in New Biofuel Study
A Worcester Polytechnic Institute-led study finds bamboo can be converted into liquid fuels at costs competitive with petroleum and with ...
Baking and CO2-Curing Old Cement: Scientists Rank Two Ways to Recycle Concrete’s Hidden Glue
A systematic analysis of 57 studies finds that heating and CO2-treatment reactivate recycled cement paste through fundamentally different chemistry, with ...
AI Meets the Blueprint: Six Years of Research Reveal How Smart BIM Is Reshaping Real Estate
A scientometric analysis of 1,758 studies maps how artificial intelligence is being integrated with building information modeling across real estate ...
Fly Ash and Slag Turn Dredged Mud Into Low-Carbon Embankment Filler
Researchers show that an alkali-activated blend of fly ash and blast furnace slag can stabilize dredged waste soil for embankments, ...
Where the Power Comes From Could Decide the Carbon Cost of Your Concrete
A new spatiotemporal life cycle assessment reveals that China's provincial power grids vary so widely in carbon intensity that the ...
Crop and Forest Waste Could Reshape the Global Energy Map, Study Finds
A new Nature Communications study projects that residue-based bioenergy could meet nearly 20 percent of Canada's energy demand by 2060, ...
Open BIM workflow weighs carbon against circularity in building design
Researchers have built a deterministic IFC-based workflow that evaluates whole-building material choices for both embodied carbon and circularity, reducing 150 ...
Rethinking America’s Hydrogen Highways: Pipelines Hold Surprises
A new Nature Communications study shows that existing models have underestimated U.S. hydrogen pipeline construction costs and that repurposing natural ...
New Framework Unites Resilience and Sustainability to Guide Ageing Infrastructure Decisions
Researchers have developed a unified optimisation framework that integrates short-term resilience recovery with long-term life-cycle sustainability metrics, showing on a ...
The Hidden Mining Footprint Missing From Farm Animal Sustainability Studies
A scoping review of over 100 life cycle assessments finds that mineral supplements sourced from mining are excluded or misrepresented ...
Hempcrete Gets a Strength Boost: Sulphate Additive Makes Carbon-Negative Building Material Tougher
South African researchers show that adding three percent potassium sulphate to hempcrete nearly doubles its compressive strength and reduces shrinkage ...
Waste Glass and Rice Husk Ash Activators Cut Concrete Carbon by a Third Without Losing Strength
A systematic analysis of 40 concrete mixes shows that activators synthesized from waste glass and rice husk ash match commercial ...
Red Pigment Doubles as Strength Booster in Colored Mortar, Study Finds
A new study shows iron oxide red pigment can strengthen colored mortar by up to 16 percent while delivering stable, ...
Plant-Powered Nanoparticles Push Corrosion Protection Toward 99 Percent
A new review shows that pairing plant extracts with green-synthesized nanoparticles lifts corrosion inhibition efficiency from roughly 69-96 percent to ...
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