Materials & Chemicals

UPM Circular Renewable Black TM is the world’s first bio-based, NIR-detectable, carbon-neg

UPM Circular Renewable Black is the world’s first bio-based, NIR-detectable, carbon-negative* black pigment, built to end the recycling standoff around black plastic packaging. Conventional carbon...

Food-Waste-to-PLA: Circular Bioplastic from Third-Generation Renewable Feedstock

TripleW is transforming bioplastics production by addressing both sugar feedstock supply and post-consumer end-of-life upcycling. Historically, petrochemical refineries extracted underground crude oil to build the...

Sustainea’s Bio-MEG: Renewable Building Block for PET

Sustainea’s Bio-MEG is produced through a one-step catalytic process that converts corn-derived dextrose directly into a bio-based monoethylene glycol chemically identical to its fossil...

BitByBit Board – a PHA cutting board designed to leave no persistent microplastics behind

After reading about microplastics released from plastic cutting boards during use, 21-year-old Wessel Schönekerl started looking for alternatives. But every existing option came with...

Bio-Iso& TM: The World’s First 100% Biogenic Carbon, Phosgene-Free Isocyanate

Algenesis Labs is a materials science and technology company founded in 2016 by three UC San Diego professors: Dr. Stephen Mayfield, Dr. Michael Burkart,...

Demonstration of on-chip all-optical switching of magnetization in integrated photonics

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 14 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02281-3This study demonstrates on-chip all-optical switching by integrating magnetic memory elements with photonic circuits, establishing a route...

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