Chemical Engineering

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021

Technology Review: This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies. Some, such as mRNA vaccines, are already changing our lives, while others are still a few years off. Below, you’ll find a brief description along with a link to a…

Nanowire-filled film makes excellent electromagnetic shield

E&T Magazine: Researchers from the University of California-Riverside have demonstrated a flexible polymer film which combines electromagnetic shielding with electrical isolation. The University of California engineers developed a film which uses a quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterial filler. The result is an excellent electromagnetic…

‘Green steel’: the race to clean up one of the world’s dirtiest industries

Financial Times: Skyscrapers and bridges, cars and cruise ships, guns and washing machines. All have one thing in common: steel. As a key input for engineering and construction, it is…

How One Scientist Is Giving Old Phones a Second Life With E-Waste Microfactories

Discover Magazine: Not all waste has to go to waste. Most of the world’s 2.22 billion tons of annual trash ends up in landfills or open dumps. Veena Sahajwalla, a…