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Lightweight 3D graphene forms 10 times stronger than steel

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Graphene is thought to be the strongest of all known materials. However, graphene is a two dimensional form of carbon, and researchers have had a hard time translating graphene’s strength into useful, three dimensional materials. ...

Sustainable

Concave Roof provides water and free cooling

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People in arid climates often struggle with two problems. The first one is the heat, and the second a shortage of water. Iran-based BMDesign Studios has come up with a new roof design for a ...

Origami bio-battery powered by bacteria

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Researchers at Binghamton University in New York have created a bacteria-powered bio-battery from a sheet of paper. The project is aimed at creating batteries for disposable microelectronics that can run for weeks using wastewater. The manufacturing ...

Indigo Slam: a sustainable concrete sculpture to live in

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Is it house or is it art? Why not both? Smart Design Studio designed a house as a sculpture, called Indigo Slam, for an art collector. The house, with a façade made from sculpted concrete, ...

Biobased

3D printed structure made with bamboo-reinforced compounds

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Bamboo is a strong, sustainable and very diverse material. It can be used to build amazing structures (like this and this). Techmer ES (TES), a manufacturer of high-performance custom compounds used in the plastics industry, ...

Bioreactors on the move to replace oil

Published 9 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

We have discussed the topic algae a lot in the past few years, but that is because you can so do much with them. Often, the algae are used to make something, such as bio-foam, ...