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New blending method gives common polymers a visible, reversible stress signal

Polymeric materials, such as plastics and rubbers, are essential in everyday life. However, detecting where mechanical stress is concentrated inside them remains a challenge.

New blending method gives common polymers a visible, reversible stress signal

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Carbon capture tech exists. Scaling it up is the hard part

Europe just opened a carbon capture and storage plant billed as the continent's largest. But global climate scenarios call for far more capacity than exists anywhere on Earth.

  • Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology exists but scaling it globally is challenging.
  • Only 77 operational commercial CCS plants worldwide, capturing a fraction of needed CO2.
  • High cost of building new CCS plants requires government subsidies and policy intervention.

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