Recovering 100% of carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer
A closed-loop path for synthesising carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer and recovering all its starting materials has been designed at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Advanced Carbons Council launched
The Advanced Carbons Council (ACC) has launched as a global trade association to support the production, adoption and use of engineered advanced carbons.
Talking Timber: Carbon emissions
Tabitha Binding discusses the importance of timber in tackling climate change by embracing natural carbon capture.
Making lower carbon cements
BRE Principal Consultant and Cementitious Materials Group member, Andrew Dunster FIMMM, discusses some of the alternatives to pure Portland cements as well as research, development and testing of low-carbon cements and concretes.
Carbon offsets found wanting
More than 80 civil society organisations have rejected the use of carbon offsets to meet corporate climate targets.
Carbon Capture & Utilisation using Algae
A technical lecture from the South Wales Materials Society
UK's first carbon-storage licensing
This comes as North Sea oil and gas industry cuts greenhouse gas emissions by more than a fifth since 2018.
First carbon-14 diamond battery
This new battery type could power devices for thousands of years, says the team from the UKAEA and University of Bristol, UK.
Ardagh trials lower-carbon biofuel
Ardagh Glass Packaging-Europe has completed an industrial fuel switching trial to produce glass packaging using biofuel.
Carbon storage licensing round announced
The UK’s first-ever carbon storage licensing round could make a significant contribution towards the aim of storing 20-30Mt of CO2 by 2030.
New dawn for carbon fibre
The National Composites Centre (NCC), UK, is launching a three-year programme to scale up the industrial recycling of continuous carbon fibre in the UK.
Warmer soil stores less carbon
Global warming will cause the world's soil to release carbon, new research shows.
A carbon boost for computers
Transistors fabricated entirely from carbon wires could increase our computers’ processing speeds and reduce their power consumption.
Ancient carbon released from rocks
A study led by the University of Oxford, UK, reportedly overturns the view that natural rock weathering acts as a carbon dioxide sink removing it from the atmosphere.
UK's largest carbon capture plant
Tata Chemicals Europe has opened the UK's first industrial scale carbon capture plant.
Capturing the UK’s carbon complex
How can carbon capture and storage contribute to net-zero? Shardell Joseph reports from an event that explored industrial and government strategies to develop the UK's market.
Carbon-loving membrane materials absorb emissions
A fabrication method for gas membranes is set to overcome the bottlenecks in selectivity and permeability to absorb carbon emissions in industrial settings. Shardell Joseph finds out how.
Captured carbon used for construction materials
Carbon emissions are being captured and converted into construction materials during roof tile production in a UK trial.
Seismic device to advance carbon sequestration
Scientists in Japan claim to have engineered an improved, low-cost method for continuously monitoring underground CO2 storage sites.
Low-carbon retrofit - Entopia Building, Cambridge, UK
A 1930s former telephone exchange has been refurbished to create the headquarters of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).