This was really great to welcome many of you for our 4th edition a month ago - see enclosed Summary of Findings
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For the first time this year we also had a major announcement made at World Materials Forum with Citeo, Total, Danone and Saint Gobain joining forces to create a Polystyrene Recycling Channel
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So we now re start our Newsletter that will encompass the news just before and just after WMF 2019 and further demonstrate the power of combining different types of expertises in order to develop next generation batteries, industrialize new aluminum electrolysis without CO2 emissions, fund clean energy supply in China, create self healing polymers or permanent magnets without neodymium, secure supply of cobalt, process glass like a polymer, industrialize 3D printing of soft materials, digitally optimize hundreds of production parameters, use graphene for greener concrete, recycle all tires and ... make plastic waste a raw material.
As always, we wish that you enjoy the reading and we will welcome any feedback.
Victoire de Margerie & Philippe Varin
CRITICAL RESOURCES
Springers, May 25th: which anode material for next generation batteries?
Read3D Printing Science & Technology, June 2nd: permanent magnets without neodymium thanks to 3D Printing at CMI?
ReadJapan Times, July 24th: Japanese car makers organize to secure the supply of cobalt even if some expect new battery technology to provide alternatives
ReadMATERIALS SCIENCES
The Guardian, April 23rd: Greener and lighter weight concrete thanks to graphene
ReadEurekAlert, May 17th: Processing glass like a polymer at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
ReadScience Daily, May 17th: Improving performance of inorganic semiconductor materials thanks to keeping the light off at Nagoya University
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DESIGN & DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Science Daily, May 31st: Big Data at Carnegie Mellon to optimize 3D printing of soft materials
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Your Oil and Gas New, June 4th: Ambitious project by Repsol and Google Cloud to digitally optimize 400 production parameters at refinery in Tarragona
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SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES
Washington Post, May 14th: Apple, Alcoa and Rio Tinto ally to develop and industrialize an aluminum electrolysis process with no CO2 emissions
ReadFreight Waves, May 31st: Breakthrough sustainability initiative at Michelin
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Reuters, June 27th: Borealis want to make plastic waste a raw material
Read9to5Mac, July 12th: Apple partners with suppliers to launch a China Clean Energy Fund
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