How Long Will A Clean Energy Transition Take? (From Adv. Sci. News – November 2021) How Long Will A Clean Energy Transition Take? That’s the questions researchers at UofT’s Center of Biocomposite & Biomaterials Processing are trying to answer in
(From AZO Materials Press- November 2021) Researchers at Luleå University of Technology (Sweden) and the University of Toronto have demonstrated in the journal Applied Electronic Materials the high-performance electrochemical properties of biomass-derived graphene dots as a functional additive for green
( From University of Toronto Engineering News- September 2021) Professor Mohini Sain (MIE) has been elected a 2021 fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). The RSC’s mission is to recognize excellence, to advise governments and organizations, and to
(From TodayOnline Singapore – August 2021) At its launch on Tuesday, the Plastics Recycling Association of Singapore also announced plans to set up a Plastics Recycling Centre of Excellence, which will develop recycling solutions for the region. The centre signed several
Prof. Sain guest edits SN Applied Sciences special issus on:Interdisciplinary: Biomass and Biocomposites. Papers accepted for the issue cover topics such as: Composites limited to agricultural biomass/natural fibres; Characterization of the agricultural biomass, natural fibres, biopolymers; Biocomposite materials; Fabrication
Congrats Athan Tountas, graduate student working jointly between Professors Sain and Ozin, on posting a recent article detailing advancements in technology aimed a powering a new cyclic carbon economy. Instead of storing captured CO2 indefinitely, the idea is to use it
(From the International DME Association’s DME Insider Briefing – April 2021) A consortium involving global industry members and major academic and research institutions has revealed its work in North America related to the development of renewable, high-energy density drop-in automotive
Researchers Athan Tountas, Prof. Geoffrey Ozin, and Prof. Mohini Sain have recently published their design for a continuous reactor for renewable methanol in Green Chemistry (DOI) Abstract A renewable pathway to carbon net-neutral or net-negative feedstocks such as methanol is
Ford Motor Company’s Powertrain Engineering Research and Development Centre (PERDC) is nestled just across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, with operations being led for more than two decades by manager and technical leader Jimi Tjong. In this role, Jimi