The waste from industrial processes in the agri-food field can represent containers of bio-materials which, converted by means of electrospinning technology into intelligent nanotissues, become potential sensors to monitor the environment.
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Drones for environmental research
How can drones help research? And in what contexts and how can we use them? The video presents some research areas of particular environmental interest in which satellite sensors, ground and air drones work in unison.
REBORN - The revenge of the butt
Cigarette filters are a type of waste that significantly contributes to the formation of microplastics in the environment. Their interior is made up of a polymeric material, cellulose acetate. In the RINASCE project, a method and prototype was developed to recycle cigarette filters, resulting in a clean polymer that can be reused.
I feel the smell of burning
A fire is a particular event that creates a more or less substantial change in the composition of the environmental matrix. How does a fire develop, and what does it emit?
Pandemic and climate change
Chief Researcher Antonello Pasini is the protagonist of a TED on pandemic and climate change available on Rayplay.
Shaping
The final video of the PLASMARE project - Plastics for new materials through an eco-sustainable recycling - describes the management of hard plastics and the eco-sustainable recycling potential of some parts. The project, financed by the Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and the Sea, was born from the collaboration of the CNR-ISMN, the CNR-IIA and the company Esper srl.
Climate changes. Analysis of causes and impacts of global warming
The conference “Climate change. Analysis of the causes and impacts of global warming ”, held by Antonello Pasini, senior researcher and climate physicist at the CNR in Rome.