Innovations & Sustainability
P-Type Boron Carbon Nitride Reaches Wafer Scale
P-Type Boron Carbon Nitride wafer growth shows useful device metrics, CMOS relevance, and unresolved manufacturing questions.
Vikram Singh
November 3, 2026
PFAS Removal Sustainability: Treatment Tradeoffs
PFAS Removal Sustainability analysis of the 2026 national assessment: costs, emissions, short-chain PFAS limits, and utility impacts.
Neha Desai
October 26, 2026
Green Chemistry Awards and Industrial Harm
Green Chemistry Awards show how recognized chemical innovations can cut waste, water use, emissions, and hazardous inputs with evidence.
Neha Desai
October 25, 2026
pDCPD Recycling Scale-Up Challenges
pDCPD recycling from UT Austin and Sandia shows promise, but catalyst reuse, reactor time, waste variation, and cost remain unresolved.
Ananya Iyer
October 19, 2026
PU foam upcycling Into 3D Printing Resins
PU foam upcycling can route waste into 3D printing resins, but recent research shows barriers in feedstock, chemistry, costs, and quality.
Neha Desai
October 15, 2026
Free Radical Gasification PFAS Demonstration
Free Radical Gasification is moving toward a full-scale PFAS test; evidence supports interest, not certainty, on scale, emissions, and waste.
Neha Desai
October 13, 2026
DOE Funding for Clean Chemical Technologies
DOE’s ASPECT funding for clean chemical technologies offers scale-up support, but cost share, timing, and proof gaps still matter.
Neha Desai
October 10, 2026
Alternative Feedstocks Get DOE Scale-Up Test
DOE’s ASPECT funding puts alternative feedstocks into bench and pre-pilot tests, with deadlines, limits, and scale-up questions.
Neha Desai
October 9, 2026
Emerging Pollutant Reuse Faces Circular Barriers
Emerging pollutant reuse may support circular goals, but PFAS, microplastics, wastewater contaminants, cost, and trust create limits.
Ananya Iyer
October 7, 2026