About 2 billion tons of waste are discarded every year, a number that is growing annually, the equivalent to the weight of 10 million airplanes. When this waste is buried in landfills, the organic ...

A new Concordia-led study suggests that iron-rich slag, one of mining's biggest waste products, could help store carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. The researchers examined whether slag, a waste material ...

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Robin Wiener The recycled materials industry stands at the front lines of a critical moment. Electrification and decarbonization are driving demand ...

Explore how responsible alternative materials and circular design can reduce plastic pollution and support people and nature.

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...

Circularity principles might help address the growing problem of materials waste, but only if they are grounded in the realities of infrastructure, policy, economics, and equity. This Series explores ...

Materials are a necessity for all engineering applications. Materials science and engineering seeks to understand the fundamental physical origins of material behavior in order to optimize properties ...

While materials design used to be ruled by traditional engineering and chemical approaches, researchers have progressively found that Nature has lessons to teach. Large numbers of studies have ...