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Digital product passports can enhance the transparency and efficiency across supply chains for short-shelf-life products, but the instability of these products requires that these passports be dynamic. We describe the challenges and suggest solutions to developing these passports.
We celebrate 1 year of Nature Reviews Clean Technology with a series of Year in Reviews and a collection that highlights articles from the past year. Here we look back at our first year and look forward to 2026.
Ankush Nandi explains how thermoplastic composites for aviation and automotive applications can be enabled with atmospheric-pressure low-temperature plasma.
Funding for new battery research projects in Germany was reduced drastically for 2024 and 2025, with some funding planned to be restored. Martin Winter argues that the disruption has broad impacts on research and investment.
Ming Jiang Gan explains how mathematical models can be used to understand the complex processes inside blast furnaces and can help to reduce their carbon emissions.
Minfei Fei explains how in situ electrochemical transmission electron microscopy can be used to characterize the solid-electrolyte interphase in batteries.
Most manufactured products contain materials produced with carbon from fossil feedstocks. Econic Technologies has developed a process for replacing fossil feedstocks used to produce polymers with captured carbon from waste carbon dioxide.
Environmental conditions fundamentally shape the reliability and sustainability of additive manufacturing. As additive manufacturing moves into real-world environments, these factors need to be considered in modelling and design.
Daniel Dailey discusses how inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry can be used in elemental analysis, such as when developing ways to recover critical minerals from unconventional resources.
Marta Kowalkińska explains how X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy can be used to characterize the surface of photoactive semiconductors for photocatalytic and photovoltaic applications.
Adequate sanitation is crucial for public health, particularly in off-grid areas. Electrostatic charges generated through human motion via contact electrification could potentially offer sanitation without requiring stable electrical or chemical supplies.
Abu Danish Aiman Bin Abu Sofian describes how in situ infrared spectroscopy techniques can be used to design better photocatalysts for green ammonia synthesis.
