PLA, PHA, bio-PE, and bio-PET are no longer niche. Here’s the state of the market and how to compete. Bio-based polymers have crossed the line from research curiosities to mainstream…
How cement, concrete, and steel innovations are tackling 10% of global emissions. Cement alone is responsible for roughly 8% of global carbon emissions, larger than aviation or shipping. Add steel,…
Real-world wins from AI-driven biodegradable and recyclable polymer discovery. The polymer industry faces an existential sustainability challenge. More than 400 million metric tons of plastics are produced annually, with less…
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…
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,…