Materials & Chemicals
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The Other Solar Race: Inside the Fight to Recycle the World’s Panels
Solar energy may be one of the greatest success stories of the clean energy transition. Costs…
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It’s Time to Wake Up and Smell the Chemicals
China Now Controls 46% of Global Chemical Sales It got there the same way it took…
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Recycling Is to Textiles What Carbon Capture Is to Oil & Gas
Innovation is buzzing in textiles recycling, particularly in the EU where Extended Producer Responsibility laws require…
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Sustainability in Food Packaging
The World Is Moving on, While Packaging Is Stuck on Perfect Sustainable biobased packaging solutions are on…
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ROYGBIV Has a Dirty Secret
Just the other day, I learned a surprising and perhaps icky factoid from Levi’s, the American denim company.…
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Lithium Refining: What the U.S. Minerals Stockpile Must Learn from China to Succeed
What an incredible week in San Diego for the Cleantech Forum North America. Amidst the buzz of the 2026…
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It All Comes Back to Supply Chains
I once had a boss who told me that every issue and every answer ultimately comes…
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Bolstering Minerals Security in the Wake of Supply Constraints and Ongoing Geopolitical Tensions
The Problem with Current Financial Systems Are… Current financial systems are a significant bottleneck—or even an active deterrent—to long-term climate…
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Cleantech’s Anti-Hero: It’s Me, AI. I’m the Problem. It’s Me.
I’m tired of AI. There, I said it. And I know I’m not the only one. Conversations about its…
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What’s REEally Happening with Rare Earths?
It was 4th grade where I got my first introduction to the periodic table. Our teacher…
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Minerals, Meet Microbes: A Potential Match Made in Metal Heaven
Do you smell what the rock is cooking? Well, if you’ve been paying attention to the…
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Let’s Get Critical
Chances are, you’re reading or watching this blog from the comfort of your smartphone or laptop—devices…
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The Next Wave of Advanced Chip Packaging Innovation
Digitalization is rapidly expanding, driven by growth in AI and data centers. The IEA’s recently published…
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The $3 Trillion Race: Investing in Semiconductors for an AI-Powered Future
By now, we’ve all heard about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) surge that is going to demand…
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Speeding Up Earth’s Natural CO2 Mineralization Cycle Can Recover All of the CO2 from Fossil Fuels
The Carbon Storage Problem We’ve got all these great solutions capturing carbon, typically from air or…
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Record $371.9M Raised for Low-Carbon Cement in 2024, But $20B Needed by 2030
Cement Produces Unavoidable Emissions Second only to water, concrete is the most consumed material on Earth…
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Decarbonizing the Chemical Industry: The Role of CO2 Electrolysis
The chemical industry is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions, accounting for approximately 3% of…
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Alternatives to PFAS in Textiles and Agriculture
How Did PFAS Get in the Water and Soil? As reported in September’s What Are PFAS? …
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Point Source Capture: Is it a Silver Bullet for Industrial Emitters?
$2.3T needed from now to 2050 — delayed deployment could cost double, even triple Point Source…
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50 to Watch, Agriculture & Food, Energy & Power, Materials & Chemicals, Resources & Environmental Management, Waste & Recycling2024 Cleantech 50 to Watch
It is our pleasure to bring you this sixth edition of the Cleantech 50 to Watch.…
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Plasma x Chemicals Production for Efficient Electrification
Plasma is popping up in all kinds of places in the cleantech world. We’ve long seen…
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Digital Tools Accelerate Materials Discovery
From Serendipity to Systemic Design We have the privilege of overabundance of data and big data…
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Innovate or Stagnate: Cleaning Up the Manufacturing Sector
It’s Time to Clean Up Industrial cleaning of manufacturing and process equipment typically employs the use…
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Battery Recycling
From 2023 to 2040, global demand for lithium will grow 870%, 210% for nickel, 390% for…
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Cell-Free Biomanufacturing: Decentralized Approach for Fuels & Chemicals Synthesis
Chemicals manufacturing consumes approximately 10% of fossil fuels produced globally and expensive heavy metal or rare…
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Battery Recycling and Materials Innovation in APAC
The APAC region has for years shown strength in production of finished electric vehicles (EVs) and…
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Agriculture & Food, Asia, Energy & Power, Materials & Chemicals, Resources & Environmental Management, Transportation & Logistics, Waste & RecyclingCleantech Trends in APAC: A Look Back at 2023 and Forward to 2024
Our annual APAC Cleantech 25 was released on April 18th, 2024 – this is always a…
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Gas Purification Systems Will Need to Grow Alongside Hydrogen Production
Hydrogen is commonly used in industry as a fuel or as an input in chemicals production.…
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Biodegradable Bioplastics: Decarbonizing a “Throw-Away Economy” Built on Cheap and Durable Plastics
Global Infrastructure that Relies on Plastics The global utilization of plastics in our everyday lives has…
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Will Photocatalysis Move the Needle on Chemical Carbon Emissions?
The chemical sector is the largest industrial energy consumer, using fossil fuels for both feedstock and…
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