A new plant-based alternative to titanium dioxide promises bright whitening at low replacement ratios as Seprify scales its cellulose-based SilvaAlba to industrial supply.

Swiss startup Seprify raises €13.4m to scale plant-based alternatives to titanium dioxide for food, cosmetics and coatings.

The Swiss startup aims to replace titanium dioxide with scalable biomaterial solutions validated with industrial partners.

For Aniket Dhar and Rupankar Bhattacharjee, the goal is simple: turn a persistent environmental challenge into a sustainable ...

Who needs to be tall when you are this strong? The elephant in this clip can’t quite reach the leaves at the top of the tree. So, does it give up? Absolutely not! It uses its huge size and strength to ...

They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in ...

EU policymakers and industry leaders discussed scalable alternatives to fossil-based materials at the Austrian group's roundtable in Brussels.

Newspapers are endlessly useful for crafts, so it's tempting to save them. Depending on where you store them in your home, you may be risking a house fire.

Brussels - The Lenzing Group, the supplier of regenerated cellulose fibres for the knitting sector, is reinforcing the role of bio-based materials as a cornerstone of Europe’s industrial and ...

I imagine that most pet parents attempt to read the ingredients listed on the dog food and dog treats bags they are considering for their canine family. I also imagine that the frustration of trying ...

For the first time ever, investigators have used tree DNA as evidence in court—to help convict a wood poacher.

Abstract: Natural fiber-based artificial muscles represent a class of green and intelligent actuating materials with significant potential for applications in soft robotics and smart textiles. This ...