A greenhouse (GHG) inventory is the list of emission sources, both direct and indirect, of an organization. Therefore, a GHG inventory is the measurement of an organization’s carbon footprint, whether …
Speckled + Marbled: The New Aesthetic Paradigm of Sustainable Design
There are two main forms of plastic recycling, mechanical and chemical. Mechanical recycling is the predominant form of recycling and produces the large majority of recycled content used in plastic …
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Hot Topic: Dimensional Stability
Dimensional stability refers to a material’s ability to maintain its shape when exposed to environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity. Commodity are known to have low dimensional …
Hot Topic: Clay Plaster
Plaster is a soft mixture of binder, sand, and water, commonly spread thin on a surface to form a smooth, durable coating when dried. Plaster processing follows three steps. First, a dry powder …
Hot Topic: Supercritical Fluid Dyeing
A supercritical fluid is a highly-compressed gas that coexists in both its liquid and gas phases. In tow, a supercritical fluid’s material properties are unique to the supercritical state, namely 1) …
Hot Topics: Greenbuild 2022 Conference Report
At the GreenBuild conference in San Francisco this year, our team gained some useful insights into the future of sustainable building systems, from materials innovation to accreditation. Let’s …
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Hot Topic: In-Mold Decoration
In-Mold Decoration, or IMD, is the process of lining the inside of a mold with a decorative film and then injecting the remaining, core material for the product in the mold to decorate its surface …
Hot Topic: Laser Texturing
Laser texturing is the process of deforming a surface with a laser’s high energy. We call to this process of removing material from a solid surface by exposing it to the energy of a laser beam as …
Weekend Word / Solar Cells
Many modern devices and industrial systems run on electricity as an energy source. Unlike gasoline, electricity is not, in it of itself, derived from fossil fuels and does not produce greenhouse …
Weekend Word / LED + OLED
Light-emitting diodes or LEDs are a type of semiconductor that convert electricity to energy in the form of light. LEDs are extremely small, approximately the size of a fleck of pepper. Yet, they can …
Weekend Word / Light
Light is the electromagnetic radiation carried by particles we call photons in the form of waves. Light can be analyzed as a property of both waves and particles, but regardless, it refers to …
Weekend Word – Sound
Sound is the directional vibration of molecules in a medium such as air. Humans will receive these sound waves in the cochlea of the inner ear, which will vibrate in the same frequency and transmit …
