That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to upcycle discarded plastics into new materials with enhanced properties. This innovation not only offers a potential solution to the global plastic ...

Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can connect through their backbones and cross-linked molecules to form ...

Achieving a sustainable society requires the development of advanced degradable plastics, or polymers, which are molecules composed of long chains of repeating units. The goal of a resource ...

Unlocking Plastic Recycling Since their widespread adoption by the manufacturing industry in the 1960s, plastics have become an omnipresent material in our daily lives. They are also the cause of very ...

Car tires, replacement hip joints, bowling balls—these and other items are made from a class of plastics called thermosets, ...

The plastics industry is sounding the alarm on the impact of tariffs on supply chains and markets. In the January Polymer ...

By manipulating the microstructure of a natural polyester, researchers in the US have developed a biodegradable adhesive ...

Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only nine per cent ...

A one-pot method for producing a range of degradable, partially recyclable thermosetting plastics by polymerising the same ...