Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By copying how natural polymers fold and fall apart, researchers created materials that stay strong in use, then break down under ...

Plastics are unfortunately so cheap useful that they’ve ended up everywhere. They’re filling our landfills, polluting our rivers, and even infiltrating our food chain as microplastics. As much as we ...

Their work explored the mechanical integrity, shape-recovery and self-healing properties of an advanced carbon-fiber plastic composite called Aromatic Thermosetting Copolyester (ATSP). Healing damage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chemists built the on-off switch into plastic building blocks, enabling shelf-stable liquids that harden only when triggered by ...

Editor’s Note: The SCM thesis Get Smart: Reinventing Plastic Recycling in a Collaborative, Circular Supply Chain was authored by Kenneth Critchlow and Pedro Benitez and supervised by Dr. Eva Ponce ...

Agri-Plastics USA LLC is expanding the company's custom rotomolding capabilities by adding a Smart Persico machine. The company expects this machine to drive more innovation and efficiency. "This ...

Plastic trash lining a mountain trail might not seem like the start of a chemistry breakthrough, but for Yuwei Gu, it was. Hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York, the Rutgers chemist saw ...

Aerospace engineering and materials science researchers at Texas A&M University have uncovered new properties of an ultra-durable, recyclable, smart plastic — paving the way for transformative ...