par Frédéric PELASCINI | 8 Déc 2019 | Actualités
Skoltech researchers in collaboration with scientists from the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS and the Ural Federal University have shown that high-capacity high-power batteries can be made from organic materials without using lithium or other rare...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 8 Déc 2019 | Actualités
Conditioning is a method made famous by Ivan Pavlov’s experiments with dogs. Pavlov trained a dog by ringing a bell every time the dog was fed. The dog learned to associate the bell with food, and then drooled when it heard the bell ring, even if it didn’t see...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 1 Déc 2019 | Actualités
Despite continued efforts to reduce plastic waste, only a fraction of it is recycled. For example, less than 30 percent of plastic waste is recycled in the EU. Some of it is exported to non-EU countries for treatment. The rest goes to landfill or is incinerated, or...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 1 Déc 2019 | Actualités
Biodegradable ‘plastic’ bags made out of banana plants sounds a bit…bananas, but a couple of UNSW researchers have found a way to do it, and it could solve two industrial waste problems in one. Two researchers at UNSW Sydney have discovered a novel...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 1 Déc 2019 | Actualités
La direction générale des entreprises (DGE) lance un appel à manifestation d’intérêt (AMI) sur les projets de recyclage chimique et biotechnologiques des plastiques. Objectif : aller plus loin que le recyclage mécanique qui limite actuellement les taux de recyclage....
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 1 Déc 2019 | Actualités
A recently discovered group of recyclable plastics seems to be a promising alternative to the hard plastic that is difficult to recycle. However, we are not yet seeing these so-called vitrimers used in products because they are difficult to process. Researchers at...
