Researchers at Finland’s Aalto University and the country’s VTT Technical Research Centre have created a new entrant in the competition to replace petroleum-based polymers and plastics. The team bonded wood fibers with the silk protein of spiders’ webs. The resulting material is tough like wood but still pliable enough to stretch like a spider...
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INVESTMENT TREND: CARBONTECH
Carbon is the new black gold: capital is rushing to back schemes promising to harvest carbon from the air. Dimensional Energy, a start-up populated with Cornell University faculty, is touting its method of combining sunlight and CO2 to make methanol. Carbicrete in Montreal has just landed funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada to build a...