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Resource Recycling USA Overview Researchers from the University of California San Diego and Toyota Research Institute of North America have developed a water-processable, fluorine-free battery binder. The material reduces energy costs by...

BIOENGINEER.ORG Japan Overview Researchers at the University of Fukui have developed a method to create uniform colors in polyester fibers by redistributing existing dyes using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO₂). By treating fabrics at...

BIOENGINEER.ORG USA Overview Researchers have identified that the anomalous decoupling of viscosity and structural relaxation in vitrimers is caused by a competition between bond exchange chemistry and segmental diffusion. This mechanism...

Chemical & Engineering News USA Overview Chemists have developed a closed-loop method to produce biodegradable amino acid-based polymers that reuse carbon dioxide by-products as reagents. This process enables high-rate recovery of monome...

Nature Overview Thermally embedding enzymes into compostable polyesters significantly accelerates degradation in marine environments from depths of 2–6 m to 5,503 m. Near-complete degradation was achieved at 757 m within 5 months, offeri...

Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Japan Overview Kirin Holdings and Japan Steel Works have reduced PET depolymerization time from four hours to under 10 minutes using a twin-screw kneading extruder. This process enables high-efficiency chemical recyc...

ETH Zurich Switzerland Overview Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a cost-effective method to break down acrylic glass into its constituent monomers with a yield of up to 98%. By reducing the required temperature from 400 to just o...

3D Printing Industry USA Overview Researchers at UC Berkeley have released OpenCAL, an open-source volumetric additive manufacturing (VAM) printer capable of forming whole parts in 90 seconds for approximately $1,600. By utilizing Comput...

European Coatings Overview Concentrated metal salt solutions can trigger the gelation of poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) and other hydrophilic alkene-containing precursors without photo-, thermal, or redox initiators. This metho...

European Coatings Overview Researchers have developed a high-solid coating system using a $\beta$-ketoester-functionalised epoxy donor to protect aluminium alloy formwork from alkaline attack. The TMPTA-crosslinked variant achieved a ten...