In line with international climate change mitigation targets, Japan has committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. To achieve this, the nation has envisaged that hydrogen will play an increasingly significant role in their future energy mix.
Many industries increasingly require materials that possess high specific strength and low density. To this end, various advanced materials have been explored and developed by researchers in recent years, with magnesium/eggshell composites proving particularly attractive.
Attractive materials that are gaining interest in the field of bioengineering are starch copolymers, and their use for biomedical applications is the focus of a paper in the journal Carbohydrate Polymers.
One of the key research areas for photocatalytic applications is the development of novel metal-free materials that possess superior visible-light responses.