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Details on material composition now available for Germany’s entire building stock could promote sustainability
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Details on material composition now available for Germany’s entire building stock could promote sustainability

by Heike Hensel, Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung e. V. View of an office building that is being demolished. Credit: Ricardo Vigh The construction...

Ajinomoto pledges to invest millions to produce material that’s vital to semiconductor packaging
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Ajinomoto pledges to invest millions to produce material that’s vital to semiconductor packaging

Ajinomoto is best known for MSG but it also makes semiconductor material It dominates production of the ABF insulating film used in GPUs...

Converting the forest industry’s carbon dioxide emissions into raw material for plastics
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Converting the forest industry’s carbon dioxide emissions into raw material for plastics

A pilot plant utilising captured carbon dioxide in VTT Bioruukki Pilot Centre, Espoo, Finland. Credit: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT Technical...

EU unveils critical material projects to cut China dependence
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EU unveils critical material projects to cut China dependence

A kaolin quarry in Echassieres, central France, which could offer access to lithium deposits that lie beneath it. The EU unveiled dozens of...

New geometric design of material provides safer bicycle helmet
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New geometric design of material provides safer bicycle helmet

The shock-absorbing layer of a bicycle helmet has a geometric structure that absorbs crash forces better than today’s helmets. Credit: Mohammad Hossein Zamani...

New carbon-negative material could make concrete and cement more sustainable
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New carbon-negative material could make concrete and cement more sustainable

Holding half its weight in carbon dioxide, the material could replace sand in concrete and other construction materials while trapping greenhouse gas. Credit:...

Developing 3D-printed soft material actuators that can mimic real muscles
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Developing 3D-printed soft material actuators that can mimic real muscles

Complexity on a small scale: A 3D-printed soft actuator or “artificial muscle.” Credit: Empa Empa researchers are working on producing artificial muscles that...

Machine learning precisely predicts material characteristics for high-performance photovoltaics
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Machine learning precisely predicts material characteristics for high-performance photovoltaics

Artificial intelligence assists with monitoring and optimizing the production of perovskite solar cells. Credit: Markus Breig, KIT; illustration: Felix Laufer, KIT In the...

Research in X-ray machines yielded a surprising discovery: a crystal material that can hold Terabytes per mm^3
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Research in X-ray machines yielded a surprising discovery: a crystal material that can hold Terabytes per mm^3

Scientists at UChicago PME develop a new atomic-scale data storage method Their approach uses crystal defects to store data as ones and zeroes...