Materials – Page 3
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Research
Glycolysis method breaks down mixed textiles for recycling
A new strategy chemically recycles the most common fibres found in fashion waste, including polyester, cotton and nylon
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Research
Plastic recycling studies need reliable polymer data. This database is ready to inform them
Database set to support recycling research by detailing the chemical composition and physical properties of 59 polymers from common commercial vendors
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Impossible aerogel that reflects more visible light than it receives prompts scepticism
Material made from salmon sperm and gelatin touted as greener way to cool buildings
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Glassy gel superpolymer is sticky and can self-heal but is also hard yet stretchy
New class of polymer owes its properties to ionic liquid solvent
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Business
Explosion and fire at South Korean battery plant kills 23
Three company officials under investigation for potential safety violations
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Research
Hydroxide-loaded sponge soaks up atmospheric carbon dioxide
Low-cost charcoal absorbs carbon dioxide and rapidly releases it in energy-efficient process
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1D perovskites break free from 2D sheets and could enable production of cheap lasers
Nanowire perovskites offer path to low-cost sensors
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Business
Workers killed in two US incidents, with several others hospitalised
H2S exposure at a sugar refining plant and a fire at a metal hardening plant each led to one worker death
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Research
Recycled construction waste could cut cement and steel’s carbon footprint
Cement can be regenerated during steel recycling in an electric arc furnace
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Research
Oxygen’s exotic yet stable bonding in graphene explained
Aromaticity accounts for extended planar structure of oxygen on binding to three neighbouring carbons while enhancing system’s stability
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Electronic cooling device is part fridge, part muscle
Soft polymer material flexes to move heat between surfaces
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Feature
One of these vials is contaminated with nanoplastics. Chemistry can tell us which one
Nina Notman talks to the scientists finding where nanoplastics come from and where they end up
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Webinar
It’s a gas – with author Mark Miodownik
Learn about the magnificent and elusive elements that expand our world
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Research
Programmable liquid hints at widespread applications
A ‘metafluid’ formed from collapsible elastic shells suspended in oil exhibits very different properties at different pressures
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Research
Structural disorder key to high-capacitance carbon electrodes
Finding could lead to supercapacitors that store more charge
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Feature
Conserving Barbie from degradation
Although she is a cultural icon, conserving Barbie has its challenges: as with most plastic toys and dolls, she was not made to last. Rachel Brazil investigates how conservation scientists are approaching this sticky problem
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Feature
Superconductivity: the search and the scandal
Recent high profile controversies haven’t deterred scientists from searching for one of research’s ultimate prizes: room temperature superconductors. Kit Chapman reports on the claims
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Research
Could mechanochemistry have saved Abbott Laboratories $250 million?
Ball milling solves problem of disappearing ritonavir polymorph
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Opinion
Holes in the ‘holey graphyne’ story
The challenges – and importance – of questioning published results