Blue Current achieves success with a breakthrough material: Top priority has been to develop a completely safe battery

03-Jan-2023

There is broad consensus that there is no silver bullet for climate change. Rather, many solutions will be required. What makes the challenge particularly daunting is the enormous reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed in a short period of time. Some experts are concerned that there is not ...

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Goodbye to crude oil-based dyes: Biotech start-up and scientists revolutionize paint production

21-Dec-2022

The colors of our clothes, cosmetics, furniture and all sorts of things around us are nearly all based on crude oil, making them far from environmentally innocent. University of Copenhagen researchers have teamed up with Danish biotech start-up Octarine Bio to create new types of sustainable ...

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"Innosuisse Certificate" for Empa Spin-off: Ready for sustainable growth

12-Dec-2022

Founded in February 2018 as an Empa spin-off, the start-up company "MIRO Analytical" received one of the coveted "Innosuisse Certificates" in October. The certificate reflects the remarkable progress the young company made during the funding agency's coaching program and confirms that the ...

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Progress in extracting chemicals from plants

05-Dec-2022

Covestro is expanding its competencies in industrial biotechnology. The plastics manufacturer intends to make increasing use of microorganisms and enzymes to make its products and processes even more sustainable. In particular, new recycling processes based on biotechnology are also to be ...

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Batene starts with ten million euros in seed financing

16-Nov-2022

An invention by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research could make batteries much more energy dense, efficient and safer. The research team has found a way to produce very fine metal fleeces, the batene fleece, that can serve as current collectors in batteries and make them ...

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An innovative redox-flow battery

24-Oct-2022

A new startup, Quino Energy, aims to bring to market a grid-scale energy storage solution developed by Harvard researchers to facilitate more widespread adoption of renewable energy sources. About 12% of U.S. utility-scale electricity generation currently comes from wind and solar sources, which ...

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Chemspace and PharmAI collaborate to make the world's largest online catalog of small molecules and biologics even more user-friendly

07-Oct-2022

Searching for the right chemical compounds is going to be as easy as Googling. That’s the reason behind the Dresden-based start-up PharmAI and the Ukrainian company Chemspace now signing a collaboration agreement. While the Kyiv-based company is the provider of the world's most comprehensive ...

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Marine microorganisms found to feast on new polyurethane materials used in a startup's sustainable shoes

26-Sep-2022

Plastics, now ubiquitous in the modern world, have become a rising threat to human and environmental health. Around the planet, evidence of plastic pollution stretches from grocery bags in the deep sea to microplastics in our food supplies and even in our blood. Seeking solutions to counteract ...

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tesa develops a new packaging tape with backing material made from recycled post-consumer PET

12-Sep-2022

tesa is launching another new, innovative packaging tape. The new tesa® 60412 includes a backing with 70% recycled (PCR) PET and a water-based acrylic adhesive system. The company is thus expanding its product portfolio of high-performance packaging tapes, which are partly made from recycled ...

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Startup granted technology license from Harvard to scale innovative lithium-metal battery technology for commercial deployment

08-Sep-2022

Harvard’s Office of Technology Development has granted an exclusive technology license to Adden Energy, Inc., a startup developing innovative solid-state battery systems for use in future electric vehicles (EVs) that would fully charge in minutes. Adden Energy has closed a seed round with $5.15M ...

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