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Sustainable polyesters via direct functionalization of lignocellulosic sugars
François Maréchal, Véronique Michaud, Yves Leterrier, Harm-Anton Klok, Jeremy Luterbacher, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou, Adrien Julien Demongeot, Graham Reid Dick, Christèle Rayroud, Thibault Rambert
The development of sustainable plastics from abundant renewable feedstocks has been limited by the complexity and efficiency of their production, as well as their lack of competitive material properties. Here we demonstrate the direct transformation of the ...
2022Maximising Climate and Employment Benefits From COVID-19 Recovery Packages: A Multi-Model Assessment of Optimal Clean Technology Portfolios
Marc Vielle, Sigit Pria Perdana
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts, scientists and policymakers alike have been advocating for green recovery packages focusing on clean energy technologies, to align economic recovery with climate change mitigation. In t ...
SSRN Paper2022Recycling of Load-Bearing 3D Printable Double Network Granular Hydrogels
Esther Amstad, Matteo Hirsch, Alvaro Lino Boris Charlet, Sanjay Phileas Schreiber
Sustainable materials, such as recyclable polymers, become increasingly important as they are often environmentally friendlier than their one-time-use counterparts. In parallel, the trend toward more customized products demands for fast prototyping methods ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022Multi-recycling of polypropylene fibre reinforced concrete: Influence of recycled aggregate properties on new concrete
Herein, an investigation of multi-generational recyclability of polypropylene fibre reinforced concrete (PPFRC) was performed. The parent concretes were produced with 0 and 6 kg/m(3) of polypropylene fibres. After recycling, the obtained coarse recycled co ...
ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022Wafer-Level Vacuum Sealing for Packaging of Silicon Photonic MEMS
Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Göran Stemme
Silicon (Si) photonic micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), with its low-power phase shifters and tunable couplers, is emerging as a promising technology for large-scale reconfigurable photonics with potential applications for example in photonic accele ...
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021The role of ride-split revenue optimization on service level and traffic operation
This master's project studies the role of ride-splitting incentives in the service level, total revenue, and trac impact of a ride-sourcing platform, which is built as a discrete event simulator using simulated taxi data within a congestible road network o ...
2021The Scikit HEP Project - overview and prospects
Scikit-HEP is a community-driven and community-oriented project with the goal of providing an ecosystem for particle physics data analysis in Python. Scikit-HEP is a toolset of approximately twenty packages and a few "a ffiliated" packages. It expands the ...
E D P SCIENCES2020Advances and Gaps in the Research of Environmental Impacts of Food Packaging Applications using LCA
Developing food packaging applications based on materials from renewable resources, such as biobased plastics, is considered as potential solution to reduce the environmental impacts of packaging. While each specific industry applies the Life Cycle Assessm ...
Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019ENTREPRENEURIAL SUPPORT FOR E-WASTE RECYCLERS
Sustainable recycling of e-waste bares opportunities as well as obstacles - mainly for small and medium size enterprises. Especially the current challenging market situation for second- hand raw materials makes it difficult for small e-waste recyclers to o ...
A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017Exploring biochemical pathways for mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) synthesis from synthesis gas
Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi
Mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) is an important petrochemical with widespread use in numerous consumer products. The current industrial MEG-production process relies on non-renewable fossil fuel-based feedstocks, such as petroleum, natural gas, and naphtha; hen ...
Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2017