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Eco Factor: Non-metallic battery made from cellulose. While industrial designers are envisioning a world where electronics won’t be hard but would be flexible enough to be integrated into clothing or product packaging, researchers are trying to..

Eco Factor: Fungus can answer fuel crisis with a faster way to produce diesel from plants. Gliocladium Roseum, or simply “Magic Fungus” for researchers finding new ways to refill our fossil fuel reserves, is an organism which resides inside...

Had nature’s waste not been automatically recycled, it’d have created havoc for the environment. In fact, sustaining the environment would have been simply impossible. Waste becomes a problem when it is created by mankind, that too, in...

A group of students from MIT have come up with a new idea to produce electricity from grass. Although a prototype, is appreciated to be very new and innovative idea. The team won the first prize in MIT and Dow Materials Engineering Contest...

Pix: Using proprietary DNA extraction and cloning technologies, scientists have isolated the cellulose-degrading enzymes found in termites and created industrial ethanol production enablers.(Courtesy: University of Toronto) With the increasing...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology researchers have discovered the solution to producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass, which was tough because of the nature of the cellulosic structure - toughness. It is also resistant to...