Thursday, 25 October 2018

Novel material could make plastic manufacturing more energy-efficient

An innovative filtering material may soon reduce the environmental cost of manufacturing plastic. The material, a metal-organic framework, can extract ethylene, the key ingredient in the most common form of plastic, from a mixture of other chemicals – while consuming far less energy than usual.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181025141944.htm



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