Cotton and polyester blended-fiber fabrics have been extensively used by clothing manufacturers, and these materials have made up a considerable number of garment wastes disposed of by consumers. Green Machine uses The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited (HKRITA)’s hydrothermal technology to separate PET-cotton blended textile fibers and decolor the PET fiber…
Once deemed unsafe, Bakar BioEnginuity Hub is now a modern coworking science lab
Bakar BioEnginuity Hub transforms a historically significant building on the University of California, Berkeley campus from a structurally deficient inoperable space into a modern coworking life science lab facility designed to LEED Gold standards. The design, which includes a glass-fronted addition and two new public plazas, modernizes the former Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film…
R&D 100 winner of the day: PPG COPPER ARMOR Anti-Viral and Anti-Bacterial Paint
PPG COPPER ARMOR is an antimicrobial paint that uses Corning Guardiant copper technology, a biocide comprised of copper glass ceramic particles, to continuously kill viruses and bacteria on the painted surface, including Staph, MRSA, E Coli, and COVID-19, within two hours of exposure for up to five years. The product is low-odor and has zero…
Speedata’s chip accelerates complex pharmaceutical workload from 90 hours to 19 minutes in simulation
Speedata, whose first-of-its-kind Analytics Processing Unit (APU) is designed to accelerate big data analytic workloads across industries, has announced the results of a simulation of its APU on a compound similarity analysis workload in the pharmaceutical industry. Using the APU, the analysis was completed in 19 minutes, compared to 90 hours when using a CPU…
R&D 100 winner of the day: MAINCOTE HG-300 Emulsion for high performance one component metal protective coatings
There is a strong environmental driver for metal coatings transition from SB to WB systems. Although WB coatings have been successful in many applications, the use of WB coatings in more demanding environments with “medium corrosivity” have encountered notable challenges. After years of careful innovation, Dow Inc.’s MAINCOTE HG-300 Emulsion was developed with a distinct…
BBy creates first condensed-to-powder breast milk, announces seed funding
BBy, a healthtech company revolutionizing hospitals’ breast milk storage and administration process, introduces its food device that condenses breast milk to a powder, maintaining the crucial bioactive components that make breast milk the best infant nutrition. BBy is disrupting a 70-year-old process in which hospitals have stored and administered donor breast milk in freezers, wasting…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Expanded Cellulose Super Ion Conductor
In pursuit of high-energy and safe batteries, researchers are working to replace the common liquid electrolytes with solid ion conductors. Solid polymer electrolytes are promising candidates but often have limited ionic conductivities of < 10-5 S/cm. This conductivity dilemma has persisted since the solid polymer electrolyte concept was proposed in 1978. The team at the…
Thermo Fisher Scientific expands steriles manufacturing and research capabilities in Asia-Pacific region
Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a new sterile drug facility in Singapore that will better enable customers to deliver new medicines and vaccines in the Asia-Pacific market. The new facility also marks a significant milestone and investment in pandemic preparedness for Singapore, which is fast emerging as a biomedical hub in the Asia-Pacific region. Established…
JEOL’s AccuTOF GC-Alpha leads the way in soft ionization analysis of petroleum samples
Petrochemical analysis just got a little bit easier with the introduction of JEOL’s AccuTOF GC Alpha. Highly respected in the mass spectrometry space for over 60 years, this sixth-generation high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer (HRTOFMS) features increased mass resolving power (R=30,000), improved mass accuracy (≤ 1ppm), and multiple soft ionization sources, making it a strong…
Smart material prototype challenges Newton’s laws of motion
From the Univerity of Missouri For more than 10 years, Guoliang Huang, the Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering at the University of Missouri, has been investigating the unconventional properties of “metamaterials” — an artificial material that exhibits properties not commonly found in nature as defined by Newton’s laws of motion — in his…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Digital M functional resin material: Drops on where functionality is needed upon fabric
Taiwan Textile Research Institute Co-developer: Sabrina Fashion Industrial Corp., Fu Hsun Fiber Industries Co., Ltd. Digital M is a polyol polyurethane resin material with the function of moisture swelling and shrinking. When this material encounters moisture, it will produce a moisture swelling shrinkage effect, to create an “airflow channel” on the fabric surface. The channel…
Three top foundries join Imec’s SSTS program
Imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has announced that GlobalFoundries, Samsung Electronics, and TSMC have joined imec’s Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies & Systems (SSTS) research program. Launched in 2021, the SSTS program rallies stakeholders from across the semiconductor industry – including systems companies, (equipment) suppliers, and now also three of the…
R&D 100 winner of the day: VK-X3000 3D Surface Profiler
The VK-X3000, from Keyence Corporation of America, allows users to capture 3D measurements with sub-nanometer resolution, even on materials that are transparent, matte, or have curved/steep slopes. By incorporating three different measurement methods: focus variation, laser confocal scanning, and white light interferometry, the system enables high-accuracy measurement and analysis to be performed on any target.…
Toyota accelerating EV plans, in this week’s R&D Power Index
R&D 100 winner of the day: City Buildings, Energy, and Sustainability (CityBES) Web Tool for Climate Change Strategies
Buildings generate 39% of global CO2 emissions. Decarbonizing the building sector and improving the climate resilience of buildings are essential to the global clean economy. However, evaluating and prioritizing cost-effective technical solutions for individual buildings at city scale poses a significant challenge for city stakeholders. City Buildings, Energy and Sustainability (CityBES), developed by Lawrence Berkeley…
Grengine is first plug-and-play, portable storage system that provides green energy
Grengine, a developer of the world’s first stackable, modular energy storage system, announces it has named Erin Rand as its new CEO, while founder and former CEO, Connie Stacey, will move into a new role as CTO. Formerly known as Growing Greener Innovations, the company also publicly announced its new corporate brand: Grengine. The new…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Electrochemical Leach (EC-Leach)
Idaho National Laboratory’s EC-Leach provides a cost-effective, highly efficient, safe, and carbon-free process for solving one of the world’s biggest clean energy challenges: lithium-ion battery recycling. The electrochemical approach provides flexible capacity capabilities that allow it to be used in centralized operational facilities as well as distributed facilities at the point of disposal. It provides…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Ultraclean Condensing Gas Furnace
The ultraclean condensing furnace, from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, achieves more than 99.9% acidic gas removal (including ~100% SOx trapping removal, >95% NOx redox to N2, and ~100% formic acid/CO/HC/CH4 oxidation) and has a potential AFUE of up to 98% at low cost. Thus, the AGR-enabled condensing furnace generates eco-friendly condensate with a pH of…
R&D 100 winner of the day: BioManIAC: Bioplastics Manufacturing with Intelligent Adaptive Control
Oil-derived, single-use plastics are designed to be disposed of immediately after use, but they persist in the environment for much longer. These plastics take decades to degrade and are a huge source of pollution around the world. Despite the urgency to replace traditional plastics with sustainable alternatives, bioplastics are still decades away from meeting the…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Thermo Scientific Gallery Enzyme Master Enzyme Analyzer
As the first and only system to fully automate all critical aspects of enzyme analysis across multiple enzymes and methods, Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Thermo Scientific Gallery Enzyme Master Enzyme Analyzer marks a profound leap forward in how enzyme assays are conducted. Through this new system, the most critical pain-points and bottlenecks plaguing traditional spectrophotometric enzyme…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Low GWP Froth-Pak Spray Foam
DuPont’s Froth-Pak Spray Foam products are used to air seal and insulate various spaces within the building envelope. These products historically use hydrofluorocarbons as blowing agents which are being phased out of use in spray foam products because of their high global warming potential (GWP). Hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) blowing agents have been proposed as acceptable alternatives.…
Keck Planet Finder, in search of exoplanets
by Jim McMahon Astronomers have confirmed more than 5,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars. There are a few aspects that are needed to characterize an exoplanet. One is the size of the planet, and the other is the mass of the planet. Space-based missions, such as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched in 2018, find…
New FIB-SEM delivers fast, atomic resolution STEM sample preparation
JEOL has developed a new Focused Ion Beam (FIB) solution for the preparation of specimens prior to observation in the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). The new JIB-PS500i is a multipurpose FIB-SEM that delivers the synergy of fast sample preparation, SEM imaging, and EDS analysis in a single instrument. High-quality fast TEM sample preparation The new…
R&D 100 winner of the day: MOSAICS: Bringing the Future of Industrial Cybersecurity Into Focus
Developer: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Co-developers: Sandia National Laboratories, Idaho National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The vulnerability of industrial control systems (ICS) to cyberattacks has become alarmingly clear in the past several years, with a series of headline-grabbing hacks. In response, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in partnership with Sandia…
RotaChrom rCPC platform adheres to CGMP guidelines for pharmaceuticals
RotaChrom has announced its rCPC platform conforms to Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) for the pharmaceutical industry, allowing the use of its rCPC purification and separation systems within cGMP-compliant laboratory and manufacturing environments. ”The GMP rCPC is a preparative purification platform that we specifically designed for the highly regulated pharmaceutical GMP environment,” said Andras Gaspar,…