How seaweed, mycelium, PLA, and PHA are reshaping a $13.83 billion bioplastics industry and unlocking a plastic-free future The world produces roughly 400 million tonnes of plastic every year, and…
From corn and sugarcane to lignin and captured CO₂ — how renewable carbon is becoming the foundation of next-generation materials For over a century, the global materials industry has been…
From graph neural networks to generative models — how artificial intelligence is cutting biodegradable polymer R&D time by 70% and unlocking precision-timed degradation Designing a biodegradable polymer is one of…
See how diffusion models and LLM agents are compressing sustainable material R&D cycles. For decades, discovering a new sustainable material looked like this: a researcher forms a hypothesis, synthesizes a…
Couple predictive ML with life cycle assessment to design greener materials from day one. Sustainable material design has a sequencing problem. Traditionally, life cycle assessment (LCA) happens at the end…
How Diffusion Models, VAEs, and Property-Conditioned Generators Are Inventing Molecules and Mixtures That Humans Would Never Propose In the last two years generative AI has stopped being a novelty in…
Learn how AI compresses multi-decade sustainable materials discovery cycles into weeks. Materials discovery has historically been one of humanity’s slowest scientific endeavors. Creating a new battery cathode, a biodegradable polymer,…
From waste prevention to benign design: how the 12 principles guide sustainable materials R&D. In 1998, Paul Anastas and John Warner published Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, introducing the 12…
A practical definition of sustainable materials and the business case for adopting them. Sustainable materials are substances designed, sourced, manufactured, used, and disposed of in ways that minimize environmental, social,…
Where green chemistry, bio-based feedstocks, and AI-driven design collide — and how to place your bets The sustainable-materials market is in the middle of a step change. Analysts at Future…