New Danish research to make fission technology safer

The Novo Nordisk Foundation is investing 8 million euros in a research project at Aarhus University that may pave the way for small, modular nuclear power plants. The technology can also be used to store surplus renewable energy.

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Researchers want to engineer intestinal microbiome to prevent childhood eczema

Researchers are to study what happens in the intestines of very young infants when they develop childhood eczema. Their goal is to find bacteria that can stop the disease from developing in the first place.

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New technology will let farmers produce their own fertilizer and e-fuels

Ammonia is one of the world's ten most important chemicals, and its production emits approx. one per cent of all anthropogenic carbon emissions. Aarhus University is leading a research project that aims to revolutionise ammonia production by utilizing variations in renewable energy production.

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Uncovering the secrets of electron-eating microorganisms

A new research project is aiming to improve our understanding of so-called electro-trophic microorganisms, which can convert green electricity and CO2 to high-value products. The project is headed by Assistant Professor Jo Philips from Aarhus University, who has received a prestigious Villum Young Investigator grant for the work.

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New project will design first Danish reactor for carbon negative hydrogen production from biogas

Denmark's first test-scale plant to produce hydrogen by catalytic pyrolysis of biogas will be ready in three years. The technology can convert carbon - captured from the atmosphere via photosynthesis - into solid form and simultaneously produce hydrogen very energy-efficiently. A great match for Denmark’s leading role in the biogas area, says AU scientist behind the project.

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How Danish agriculture can become a driving force for the green transition

The agricultural sector is facing a paradigm shift. Danish high-tech agriculture can show the world how a pervasive transformation of the industry can reform food production and, at the same time, tackle the crises facing the world. The transformation is all down to something as basic as what we grow on fields, and we may have to get used to the sight of green fields instead of yellow in late summer.

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New research will unveil the future for natural preservation of food products

With a grant of DKK 10 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, researchers from Aarhus University are aiming to find out how best to use naturally occurring compounds to preserve food.

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Researchers to investigate chemicals in indoor air

By far the majority of the air we breathe in Denmark is indoor air. Yet we know very little about the cocktail of chemicals entering our bodies in this way. Researchers now want to monitor these emissions and map out the scope of harmful substances.

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New discovery opens novel pathway for high-titer production of drop-in biofuels

Using an unusual, light-dependent enzyme and a newly discovered enzymatic mechanism, researchers from Aarhus University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have enabled the biological synthesis of high-yield industry relevant production of climate neutral drop-in fuels from biowaste.

How do you recycle composite from wind turbines?

When composite from wind turbines is to be disposed of then it either ends up in landfills, or it is incinerated. However, researchers are working on a sustainable way of recycling the composite material, says Mogens Hinge, expert in plastics from Aarhus University, in this blog post.

Major grants to bold engineering projects

Nine researchers at Aarhus University have received foundation grants from the Villum Experiment Programme under the Villum Foundation for their daring and innovative projects. The Villum Experiment Programme donates money for ‘bold ideas for research’.

She researches into making clothes out of grass

Birgit Bonefeld is one of Denmark's only researchers into sustainable textiles: a very important area in the green transition, and one which may also become an important part of agricultural conversion to grass production to reduce nutrient leaching and replace imports of soy protein.

Scientists invent method to transform near-unbreakable plastic into biodegradable polyester

Polyethylene is the most important and widely used plastic in the world and it is used in a wide range of consumer plastics. It is also incredibly difficult to break down in nature. A new research project aims to enable the recycling and upcycling of polyethylene by converting it into biodegradable polyester through a three stage chemical and biological process.

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This is how we filter air from biogas plants

Danish research has mapped previously unknown disparities in emissions from biogas plants. The research has now led to new filter and sensor technology that can eliminate some of the most important sources of odours from biogas plants.

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Danish researchers aim to spin artificial nerve fibres with new technology

A new research project at Aarhus University will take the lead in the fight against diseases such as multiple sclerosis, which breaks down myelin and nerve fibres. The project is being funded by the Lundbeck Foundation, and aims to find new forms of treatment by developing new, artificial nerve fibres.

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New research project aims to make it easier to remove PFAS from nature

The so-called forever chemicals, PFAS, are found in many places in nature, but remediation is problematic because their concentrations are extremely small. New research will make it easier and more efficient to remove these toxic substances.

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New collaboration will ensure a better indoor climate at schools

Temperatures, noise levels and light and air quality have a significant impact on learning for children and young people. A new indoor climate strategy for schools in the City of Aarhus aims to create an optimal indoor climate, and indoor climate experts from AU Engineering at Aarhus University are involved in the project.

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Working for the total green transition of society

For nine years, Behzad Partoon has researched CO2 capture technology at University Technologi Petronas in Malaysia. Now he is looking into what we can do with the CO2 once we have captured it. That was actually the main reason why he came to Aarhus University.

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Microorganisms to transform CO2 into sustainable fuel

The ReMeSh research project will increase our understanding of microorganisms' ability to convert CO2 into methane and it will form the basis for development of a new technology for efficient production of sustainable fuel.

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The road to future zero emissions demands a new form of ammonia production

A new global collaboration to examine new ways of producing green ammonia is to receive DKK 21 million from the EU framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020. The project is being headed by engineering researchers from Aarhus University.

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Researchers aim to make ammonia production 100% green

In a new project, researchers from Aarhus University and Stanford University will develop a sustainable technology for local-scale production of green ammonia. Ammonia (NH3) is today primarily based on the so-called Haber-Bosch process, invented in the early 20th century. The process is one of the largest contributors to global CO2 emissions.

From Danish hemp fields to sustainable textiles

One hectare of Danish-grown hemp can replace 2-3 hectares of cotton and requires significantly less water in production. A new project, supported by Innovation Fund Denmark, aims to develop a method that will make the hemp textiles a sustainable alternative to cotton.

New technology can significantly reduce ammonia and methane emissions from agriculture

A Danish research team has invented a natural additive for livestock manure to reduce emissions of various gases from the manure, for example the greenhouse gas methane.

Danish researchers looking for rare enzyme that can break down plastics

Plastics really can be broken down, and a number of researchers at Aarhus University have started to hunt for the unique enzymes that can do the job. The project could be ground-breaking for the plastics issue, and it opens up for a completely new field of research.

Using nano-scale spintronic devices, researchers aim to build novel artificial brain

New research project to develop AI hardware; a completely new kind of computer system that mimics how the human brain is built up. Out with CPUs and memory storage, and in with artificial neural networks that can increase computer performance by up to 100,000 times compared to modern supercomputers.