Goal 13: Climate action

A microbial plastic factory for high-quality green plastic

Changing Global Logistics and the Global Environment with Digital Technology

How to upcycle low-energy light

Recreate development in a petri dish to understand how plants live

Dry-cleaning fluid becomes a synthetic chemist's treasure

Keeping Vilsmeier reagent in the flow

Successful polycarbonate synthesis using the photo-on-demand interfacial polymerization method

Aiming to feed future generations without famine

Bioengineering to Achieve Carbon Neutrality

Kobe University and AGC successfully convert dry cleaning solvent into useful chemical compounds

Key to Chemical Industries’ Sustainable Future?

Safe, sustainable photo-on-demand synthesis of polypeptide precursors

Developing fluoroalkyl carbonates to make pharmaceutical and chemical industries cleaner and safer

New photocatalytic membrane that can be cleaned using light energy

New eco-friendly synthesis method uses alumina as a recyclable catalyst

Green technology breakthrough

Discovery of new phenomenon a game-changer for efficient bioproduction of useful chemicals

Separating natural and man-made pollutants in the air

Faster detection of photocatalyst-generated oxygen has big implications for clean energy

First lawyer in Antarctica

Highly efficient hydrogen gas production using sunlight, water and hematite

Successful method yielding high rate of D-lactate using cyanobacteria could revolutionize bioplastic production

New metabolic engineering strategy for effective sugar utilization by microbes successfully improves bioproduction of polymer raw materials

Breakthrough in clean energy production

Why photosynthesis works better for some plants than others

World’s most efficient production of succinate from carbon dioxide

Set in stone

Photocatalyst makes hydrogen production 10 times more efficient

Solar cell design with over 50% energy-conversion efficiency

Mechanism behind plant withering clarified