Engineering a Circular Future: Can Plastics Be Made Sustainable?
From carbon to cracking, the chemicals industry is seeking a net-zero solution to plastics. Sam...
Features - Materials
Chemical Recycling of PVC: From Laboratory Promise to Industrial Reality
Rajendra Gupta explores why PVC’s chlorine-rich chemistry makes recycling uniquely difficult – an...
Old King Coal Part 5: Coal Medicines
In the final part of the series, Martin Pitt reveals how coal-tar chemistry led to the first synt...
ChemEng History Quiz
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to test your chemical engineering memory and historical k...
Old King Coal Part 4: Coal Colours
Martin Pitt continues his series on coal, exploring how tar gave rise to the world’s first synthe...
Old King Coal Part 3: Coal Chemicals
Martin Pitt looks at how once-discarded byproducts fuelled revolutions in fuels, antiseptics, pla...
Old King Coal Part 2: Coal Gases
Martin Pitt continues his series on the history of coal, looking at coal gas, balloons and the fu...
Old King Coal Part 1: Coal Fuel
In this new series, Martin Pitt outlines coal’s historic place, first as the basis for solid fuel...
Closing the Loop: A Circular Economy Approach to Critical Mineral Sustainability
Michael Akindeju explores key circular economy strategies to reduce reliance on virgin resource e...
A Galvanising Moment?
Adam Duckett on how materials innovation hinges on much wider collaboration
Gold from Gadgets
The Royal Mint’s Tony Baker and Julian Cox explain to Adam Duckett how a solution in a beaker was...
How Your Magazine is Made: Paper and Ink
Aniqah Majid goes back to basics to learn how the paper and ink used for TCE is produced
Rare Metal Detecting
The conversion of rocks to metals is quintessential chemical engineering which created the techno...
We Must Go Round in the Right Circles
Adam Duckett on the need to go around in the right circles
Materials: Making a Positive Difference
Adam Duckett talks to the engineers developing technologies to reduce the environmental impact of...
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