When a global manufacturer wanted to join forces with Nebraska engineers to test a new material in their conductive concrete, NUtech Ventures helped broker a deal that is taking the invention global. Now the conductive concrete, developed by Chris Tuan and Lim Nguyen, is poised to be an international hit.
https://engineering.unl.edu/nutech-ventures-helps-take-engineering-facultys-conductive-concrete-global/
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Fossil fuels have long been the precursor to plastic, but new research by Vitaly Alexandrov and European collaborators could help send that era up in smoke — carbon dioxide, to be exact. Alexandrov and colleagues have now detailed a catalyst-based technique that can double the amount of carbon dioxide converted to ethylene, an essential component of the world’s most common plastic, polyethylene.
https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/technique-doubles-conversion-of-co2-to-plastic-component/