5 December 2024 Imperial College London and Rio Tinto launch US$150mln materials hub The British university and international miner are partnering on the Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials.
2 December 2024 Circularity in textiles ‘impossible’ without drop in consumption, report finds The Circularity Gap Report Textiles finds only 0.3% of materials used in the global textile industry come from recycled sources.
29 November 2024 LEGO-inspired glass bricks for circular construction An MIT team has made 3D-printed glass bricks that can disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled into a new structure.
29 November 2024 IOM3 announces Honorary Fellowship Journalist and writer Ed Conway was elected to Honorary Fellowship by the IOM3 Executive Board.
28 November 2024 ‘ZeroCAL’ takes concrete steps to decarbonise cement Calcium hydroxide – a zero-carbon precursor for lime and, subsequently, cement – is being billed as the solution to decarbonise cement production.
27 November 2024 Single-step alloy production Metal extraction, alloying and processing have been merged into a single step by Max Planck scientists in Germany.