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Sustainability

We leverage insights into how Nature builds to develop world-changing technologies and get them to market to help address the mounting challenges confronting the health our planet. By emulating biological principles, we are applying our successful innovation model to develop disruptive solutions to decarbonize industries, protect and restore biodiversity, mitigate the damaging effects of climate change, and repair our planet to make it habitable for future generations.

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AquaPulse: Portable Off-the-Grid Water Purification
AquaPulse: Portable Off-the-Grid Water Purification

Globally, more than 2 billion people are forced to use a drinking water source that is contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and other pathogens, and an estimated 502,000 people die each year from diarrhea as a result of unsafe water. While a majority of the world has access to improved water sources, many are often contaminated;...

Dark smoke comming from the chimneys of an old factory.
Catalytic Materials: Cheaper, Better Air Purification for a Healthier World

Our catalytic materials are inspired by the nanostructure of butterfly wings and enable affordable air purification for a variety of applications.

Lactation Biologics: Increasing Milk Production for Healthier Babies
Lactation Biologics: Increasing Milk Production for Healthier Babies

Lactation Biologics is developing a long-lasting, self-injectable treatment to help nursing mothers feed their babies naturally, helping them get the best nutrition possible in the face of climate disasters and supply chain disruptions.

cSNAP: Eco-Friendly Air Conditioning
cSNAP: Eco-Friendly Air Conditioning

Our eco-friendly air conditioning technology is a low-carbon-footprint evaporative cooling system that reduces indoor air temperature without adding humidity.

Origami-Inspired Radiant Cooling for Improved Thermal Health
Origami-Inspired Radiant Cooling for Improved Thermal Health

Origami-inspired Radiant Cooling devices for a broad range of building interiors use microfluidic water-circuits and foldable designs that increase their surface area to achieve more effective cooling.

Dynamic Daylight Control System
Dynamic Daylight Control System

In the U.S. alone, commercial and residential buildings account for more than 40 percent of the total energy consumption – mostly for lighting. What’s more, the deep building layouts that are typical in the U.S. have led to a complete reliance on artificial lighting systems that are less desirable than natural daylight. Many of the...

Bioplastics
Bioplastics

Humans have produced roughly 8,300 million metric tons of plastic since the 1950s, the vast majority of which has been thrown out as waste. Only about 9% of that plastic waste has been recycled and 12% has been incinerated, leaving 79% of it to accumulate on our land and oceans, harming the environment, the food...

Liquid-Gated Membranes for Filtration
Liquid-Gated Membranes for Filtration

Just like pores in living organisms that control the absorption and excretion of fluids, gases and solids in response to their environments, flow-gating membranes have proved very useful for many mechanical systems, such as gas and liquid separators, dialysis machines, or open heart bypass pumps. But conventional approaches to create synthetic “gated pores” within those...

DNA Data Storage
DNA Data Storage

The genetic material DNA has garnered considerable interest as a medium for digital information storage because its density and durability are superior to those of existing silicon-based storage media. For example, DNA is at least 1000-fold more dense than the most compact solid-state hard drive and at least 300-fold more durable than the most stable...

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