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 A Sustainable Building Material from Sugarcane Waste 🌿🏗️ 🌱 After sugarcane crops are harvested, a significant amount of fibrous stalk waste, known as bagasse, remains. Transforming this agricultural by-product into something valuable? That's where this comes in , an innovative and eco-friendly building material that’s turning sugarcane waste into sustainable construction blocks. sharing some advantages this could hold : 🔥 Advantages: Speedy Curing: Sugarcrete fully cures in just one week, compared to four weeks for concrete. Lightweight: Weighing only a quarter to a fifth as much as concrete per same-sized block, Sugarcrete is easier to handle during construction. Cost-Effective: Especially beneficial in sugarcane-growing regions, where bagasse can be repurposed instead of ending up in landfills. Eco-Friendly: With a carbon footprint just 15% to 20% that of concrete, Sugarcrete contributes to a greener planet. 🏗️ Applications: Sugarcrete has already been demonstrated in prototype modular floor slabs. These interlocking blocks distribute loads efficiently, using up to 90% less steel than traditional concrete slabs. The material’s fire resistance, compressive strength, thermal conductivity, and durability meet or exceed industry standards. 🌎This is something towards sustainability #innovation #productionengineer #productmanager #growthhacking #startupecosystem

Check out our newest article exploring the active sites in a bimetallic phosphoboride catalyst experimentally and computationally for overall water splitting https://lnkd.in/gYb9dR4H

innovation is the only way ahead.

Check out two new papers from the Arges group: 1) I provide a viewpoint (https://lnkd.in/gEyDMz54) in Nature Water Nature Portfolio on a new electrochemical desalination platform concept by Shihong Lin and co-workers. This research team exploits ion pumping via circuit switch relays for energy efficient, continuous desalination. You can check out their paper here: https://lnkd.in/gX-xGmgh. 2) The second paper in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society ECS - The Electrochemical Society (https://lnkd.in/gxaKySZF) is by my former student, Tanmay Kulkarni, and it disseminates lithium ion capture from model geothermal brine solutions using bipolar membrane capacitive deionization. Feifei Shi and her team supplied us delithiated iron phosphate for use as selective lithium electrodes in the unit. After we selectively capture the lithium ions, we discharge them into a recycling stream to concentrate it. During this process, the bipolar membrane operates in forward bias mode and acts as a proton sink to produce lithium hydroxide solution - which is the precursor battery manufacturers prefer when making battery electrodes. MD simulations by Revati Kumar and her team explain the formation of hydroxide ions in the recirculation stream when the bipolar membrane operates in forward bias mode.

🎥 New Episode Release in 📚 "en𝗖𝗜𝗖lopedia" by CIC energiGUNE 📚: Exploring #HydrogenStorage 🎥 We’re excited to continue our journey into the #hydrogen world with another insightful episode led by Dr. Paramaconi Rodriguez, Group Leader of Electrochemical #Hydrogen Technologies at CIC energiGUNE. 🌟 In this episode, Dr. Rodriguez breaks down the crucial role hydrogen storage plays in decarbonization. From managing #renewableEnergy intermittency to offering solutions for long-term storage, hydrogen’s versatility shines through. 🚀 ⚡The video explores five key methods of hydrogen storage: compressed gas, cryogenic hydrogen, adsorption, metal hydrides, and chemical hydrides. Each method comes with its own advantages and challenges. ⚡ 👀 Watch the full episode here to see how these storage methods will help power our transition to a hydrogen-fueled future: https://lnkd.in/dMBgrQVd 🚀 Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more episodes in the "en𝗖𝗜𝗖lopedia" series!

https://lnkd.in/ecKAfKzg A Pd-catalysed hydrogenation of gem-diborylalkenes

Unraveling the influence of magnetic field on microbial and electrogenic activities in bioelectrochemical systems: A comprehensive review https://lnkd.in/eeEBaqWd?

Unraveling the influence of magnetic field on microbial and electrogenic activities in bioelectrochemical systems: A comprehensive review https://lnkd.in/e7ACTMYV?

Unraveling the influence of magnetic field on microbial and electrogenic activities in bioelectrochemical systems: A comprehensive review https://lnkd.in/e7ACTMYV?

Thanks to Jim Lane for the post today in The Digest (https://lnkd.in/g8QgVQ-7) of our slides from ABLC. The subject was our process for CO2 to fuels, chemicals, etc., with high efficiency, implementable at commercial scales in the near term using globally available, low cost materials and heat. There's no electrolyzers, catalyst, or reverse water gas shift reaction required. It is far and away the most efficient way to convert CO2 to SAF, diesel, naphtha, and other important hydrocarbons or alcohols. We are neck-deep in benchtop work as we move into piloting and will release more news in the coming months. #ptl #carbonutilization #greenhydrogen #thermochemistry