Dear all
Strong focus this month on sustainability initiatives be P&G finalizing a « back to virgin » process for propylene that is most well known as a great & versatile food protection material, Apple using recycled rare earth into new smartphones, PepsiCo reducing use of virgin plastic, Berkeley & DOE launching a new fund to support water desalination projects or DOE project to use US nuclear plants... for producing carbon free hydrogen.
Impressive scientific breakthrough also, be a ‘next generation’ plastic developed at Berkeley which can be recycled indefinitely, a new process for manufacturing cement without CO2 at MIT, a new carbon free liquid fuel thanks to rare earth based catalyst at Stanford, progress made on porous silicon anodes at Frauenhofer or to use spider silk as a reinforcing element at Wurzburg. And very interesting modeling works at SLAC/Stanford on understanding high-temperature superconductivity.
Two “general” papers this month: the closing press release of the UN Summit as well as another interesting perspective suggesting that after bronze and iron ages we might be entering the age of... carbon.
Two articles as well in the field of Critical Materials - signature of long term contract between LG Chem and Umicore and global rare earth analysis seen from India.
And finally some good news coming from our WMF start ups with Aerosint “again” (Belgium) and also Imagine (Australia), Kebotix (USA), Opus 12 (USA) and Woodoo (France).
