New insulation takes heat off environment
Credit: Flinders University Waste cooking oil, sulfur and wool offcuts have been put to good use by green chemists at Flinders University to produce a sustainable new kind of housing insulation material. The latest environmentally friendly building product from experts at the Flinders Chalker Lab and colleagues at Deakin and Liverpool University, has been described in a new paper published in Chemistry Europe ahead of Global Recycling Day (18 March 2021) The insulating composite was made from the sustainable building blocks of wool fires, sulfur, and canola oil to produce a promising new mod...
Source: eurekalert.org