Beads which can store heat, which would otherwise be wasted, from various sources, including industrial operations and the summer sun. The new material has been made using alginate, an inexpensive ...

Compared to SPECIFIC's previous carrier material, vermiculite, the alginate-based beads from both methods offer a remarkable improvement in heat storage capacity.

Over the past few years, they have developed a controlled and documented production process for alginate, the seaweed's supporting structure.

Researchers at Swansea and Bath Universities have developed a heat storage material derived from alginate, a naturally occurring anionic polymer typically obtained from brown seaweed.

The effect of root-organ culture (ROC) produced arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), i.e. Glomus proliferum, Glomus versiforme and Glomus intraradices, entrapped in Ca-alginate beads on the first ...