Sustainability – Page 11
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Opinion
Fossil industries promise net emissions reductions
Can the oil industry really curb its carbon output fast enough to impact climate targets?
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Research
Light-harvesting clusters and titanium dioxide cooperate to fix nitrogen
Atomically precise metal clusters continue to gather momentum by catalysing the production of ammonia
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Research
Engineered yeast can remove heavy metals from wastewater
Easy storage and rapid growth could see yeast compete with bacterial and chemical remediation
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Research
Durable catalyst could enable large scale conversion of carbon dioxide to syngas
Nanocatalysts on crystalline supports show remarkable stability producing hydrogen and carbon monoxide
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Article
Transforming innovation for startups
Green polymer specialists Novomer and biotech startup SynbiCite optimised industrial and biotech processes using design of experiment software from JMP
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News
Can negative emission technologies overcome climate catastrophe?
Reforestation, carbon capture and storage, direct air capture are among the ‘Nets’ that could remove CO2 from the atmosphere
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Opinion
A dedicated follower of slow fashion
Our features editor has some clothes that are nearly old enough to vote
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Feature
Recycling clothing the chemical way
Nina Notman explores how chemistry is poised to close the loop in clothing recycling
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Research
Electrolyser selectively consumes carbon dioxide in unpurified flue gas
Method tackles kinetic and thermodynamic hurdles
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Research
Study questions benefits of spending on carbon capture
Previous models failed to consider upstream carbon emissions and air pollution
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Research
Catalyst breaks sulfur–sulfur bonds to give new life to tired tyres
Process recovers organic components that can become new elastomers
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Business
Chemicals industry roundup 2019
Focus turns to sustainability amid rising economic pressures and political uncertainty
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Research
The dangers of global warming have been understated but so have our options to fight it
Analysis finds rates of decarbonisation significantly higher than thought
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Business
Carbon Cycle’s gypsum purification process cleans up radioactive fertiliser waste
The patented process could prevent environmental damage and provide a new source of gypsum and rare-earth metals
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Business
Reclaiming fuel from air
The companies trying to capture atmospheric carbon and transform it to hydrocarbons using green energy
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Podcast
Gallium arsenide
Brian Clegg introduces gallium arsenide – the supercar of the semiconductor scene
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Research
Lignin and carbon dioxide turned into ethanol
Process generates bulk chemical from two renewable carbon sources
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Research
Synthetic hormone stops water loss in crops
Virtual screening and scaffold merging behind compound that closes plant stomata
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Opinion
Don’t be sniffy about sewage – or concrete
Do you flush and forget? Time to make a stink about concrete’s emissions