One day, Union College's
Aerogel Team's novel way of making «frozen smoke» could improve some of our favorite machines, including cars.
Not exact matches
Contributing to this global effort, the NUS
team has successfully pioneered the development of
aerogels using cotton fibres harvested from textile waste.
A research
team led by Associate Professor Hai Minh Duong (left) and Professor Nhan Phan - Thien from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has devised a fast, cheap and green method to convert fashion waste into highly compressible and ultralight cotton
aerogels.
A research
team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has successfully devised a fast, cheap and green method to convert cotton - based fabric waste, such as unwanted clothing, into highly compressible and ultralight cotton
aerogels.
«This new eco-friendly cotton
aerogel is a major improvement from the
aerogel that our
team had previously developed using paper waste.
Led by Associate Professor Hai Minh Duong and Professor Nhan Phan - Thien from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NUS Faculty of Engineering, the research
team discovered that the novel cotton
aerogels can be easily compressed, and they can also very quickly recover up to 97 per cent of their original size when placed in water.
The NUS
team has also developed a more eco-friendly process to convert paper waste into
aerogels.
A research
team from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has achieved a world's first by successfully converting paper waste into green cellulose
aerogels that are non-toxic, ultralight, flexible, extremely strong and water repellent.
The NUS
team has also discovered a way of expanding the weight capacity of the cellulose
aerogels.
The novel cellulose
aerogels developed by the NUS
team could also signal a change in the packing industry.
The
team used a bidirectional freezing technique that they previously developed to assemble a new type of biomimetic graphene
aerogel that had an architecture like that of the plant's stem.
«Our
team, as well as several other
teams, is hard at work on how to capture the plume particles with either
aerogel or metal plates,» Fujishima said.