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Emerging Technologies, Energy, Process Intensification, Sustainability

Sridhar Seetharaman’s parents didn’t want him to become a physicist.

“My parents are from a different generation,” said Seetharaman, who moved from India to Sweden with his family when he was only 1 year old. “Their immediate challenge was just surviving. They thought I’d never get a job in physics.”

To Seetharaman’s parents, physics was an...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity for Manufacturing USA W orkforce, E ducation a nd V ibrant E cosystems (WEAVE) public serve awards to the 17 Manufacturing USA institutes for proposals in the following topic areas :

Partnerships amongst two or more institutes to build vibrant and...

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Sustainability, Sustainable Manufacturing

An Arizona State University-led initiative aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions in manufacturing has announced its first projects toward decarbonizing the American industry. In partnership with the United States Department of Energy, five jumpstart projects have been selected to advance the reduction of manufacturing carbon dioxide emissions...

Sustainable Manufacturing

Cement is the strong and versatile binder that holds together sand and aggregates in concrete used to erect the sturdy structures that have long shaped our modern built environments.

Cement is also a major source of one of the most prevalent environmental pollutants of the modern age: carbon dioxide. Cement’s ecological drawbacks stem from the...