Using carbon dioxide to make greener plastics
Christoph Gürtler and Walter Leitner named European Inventor Award 2021 finalists German chemists nominated for European Patent Office (EPO) prize for their method of using waste carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the production of polyurethane-based plastic products. Technique is accelerating the shift to the circular economy by enabling commercially viable re-use of CO₂.
A product of collaboration between industry and academia, the breakthrough reduces the amount of crude oil used in the production of essential everyday products, from mattresses and flooring to car interiors. Zoom in ).addClass( image-details ); var $imageCaption = $( ).addClass( image-caption ).text(caption);
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The ranking of the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE) for the subjects biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer science, geography, geosciences, political science, medicine and dentistry has now been published in the ZEIT study guide.
The basis is a student survey on the course, the equipment of the university and the teachers. The students rate their university from “1 – very good” to “6 – very bad”, and the assessments are then combined into various indicators. The universities are divided into top, middle and bottom groups for each indicator.
In the current ranking, the RWTH in biology, chemistry and computer science is in the top group in all published criteria.
From: Natural Resources Canada
In partnership with Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, Natural Resources Canada and the National Research Council of Canada today announced the German-Canadian Materials Acceleration Centre (GC-MAC).
In partnership with Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, Natural Resources Canada and the National Research Council of Canada today announced the German-Canadian Materials Acceleration Centre (GC-MAC). With an aggregate $8.8 million (€6M) in funding over five years, the Centre received $2.2 million (€1.5M) in support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), with matching funds from the German host organizations, and $4.4 million (€3M) in in-kind support from the Canadian government.
U.S. software giant PTC has entered into a long-term strategic collaboration agreement with Technion – Israel Institute of Technology under which PTC will establish a Research & Development center and invest NIS 15 million (approximately $4.6 million) into Technion’s Haifa campus. Under the terms of the agreement, PTC, which is traded on Nasdaq and has a current market cap of over $15 billion, and Technion will jointly research and upgrade learning processes relating to advanced manufacturing technology. PTC’s Haifa development center will relocate to Technion under the leadership of Dr. Michael Reitman.
“Today, scientific and technological breakthroughs need both multidisciplinary research and close collaboration between academia and industry. Industry is at the forefront of active implementation and is well-acquainted with market needs, whereas academia brings basic scientific knowledge and research depth,” said Professor Uri Sivan, President, Technion – Israel Ins