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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, say they can control the properties of a wood-like plant material that is grown in a laboratory.

Consortium partners from the EU INGREEN project discussed the development of new chemical building blocks, plastic materials and consumer packaging from paper milling wastewater at a recent webinar. Alex Brinded reports.

Producing high-quality packaging and car parts from post-consumer mixed plastic waste is the focus of a research project at Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Germany.

A low-cyanide leaching technology to enhance gold extraction is being commercialised. This follows the sale of the Mining and Process Solutions (MPS) firm to chemical supplier Draslovka in the Czech Republic.

A research team from Sun Yat-sen University, China, has made an epoxy-based coating that they claim can heal itself in sunlight in less than two minutes.

4D composite printing could lead to morphing wings on drones. This would replace a common hinged wing flap.

By replacing lime-flux with used cement paste for steel recycling, the resulting slag could, in turn, create a zero-emissions cement in a closed loop process, propose scientists at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Novel particle separation technology could make the clean-up of legacy radioactive waste faster and cheaper, claim researchers in the USA.

A porous material that captures toxic pollutants such as benzene can release clean air, claim scientists at the University of Limerick (UL), Ireland.