Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
Technology
Farmers and residents hate them, but a construction sector hungry for building materials is increasing applications for more and bigger quarries.
Technology
Farmers and residents hate them, but a construction sector hungry for building materials is increasing applications for more and bigger quarries.
Building & Construction
As operational energy efficiency improves, attention is increasingly turning to embodied carbon—the emissions associated with extracting raw materials, manufacturing products, transporting them, installing them, and, ultimately, dealing with them at the end of their useful life.
Building & Construction
When Ludwig Hatschek invented fibre cement in the late 19th century, he combined the basic elements of the earth: minerals, water, air and fire (heat) in a simple filtration process. Our mother company, Etex, has been manufacturing fibre cement materials since 1905, with the most prestigious incarnation in this proud heritage of unique materials being EQUITONE®.