Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...
Plastics are synthetic or semi-synthetic materials made from polymers, which are long chains of molecules typically derived from petroleum, natural gas, or other organic sources. Plastics are ...
A group of 30 French and European experts worked on the collective scientific assessment[1], drawing on a corpus of over 4,500 international scientific publications as well as statistics and ...
There is a considerable amount of research into the reduction of plastic for many and various applications. For the first time, researchers have found a way to imbue relatively sustainable paper ...
Unlike their mid-century ancestors, today's plastics are being reimagined through ultra-thin layering at the molecular level.
Plastics are made from crude oil and petroleum by-products, so a team of scientists decided to explore if they could turn ...
Utilising AI to develop coatings that are both recyclable and biodegradable, Papkot aims to make paper packaging which mirrors the properties of plastic. Plastic, despite its contribution to vast ...
Chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method for producing new macromolecules with improved properties by modifying the polymers in discarded plastics.