A King's researcher has urged environmental scholars to give greater focus to the environmental sustainability issues ...

While plastics are very useful on their own, they can be much stronger when reinforced and mixed with a range of fibers. Not ...

This clip starts with a brief introduction into what polymers are and lists examples of both natural and synthetic polymers. It then goes on to describe what a smart polymer is, before focusing on one ...

With a new spin on a reaction called frontal polymerization, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology can create materials ...

Megan Hill is an assistant professor of chemistry and leader of the Hill Lab in Colorado State University's College of ...

Outerknown's limited-edition shirt is the first commercial product made in part from Kelsun, a sustainable kelp-based ...

We produce some 400 million metric tons of plastics year in, year out. Except for the roughly 9% that’s recycled and 12% that ...

Old tires, discarded cups, and cigarette butts litter the magnificent Saguenay Fjord, a marine protected area in eastern ...

A bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BRS) with highly aligned microstructure and small-crystallite crystallinity can avoid high ...

TU Graz researchers have created a way to use 3D printing to bond wood and polymers without using adhesives, called ...

Could our unshakeable addiction to plastics be broken? That’s certainly the hope of activists. The U.S. — birthplace of the modern polymers industry, and the biggest producer […] ...