ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can ...

A bucket of liquid plastic that never hardens sounds like a fantasy in a factory. It is also the kind of problem that drives ...

"Future research can build on these results." Scientists discover incredible way to make plastic materials nearly ...

Controlled polymerization Development of polymerization catalysts Polymer synthesis for the development of bio-sourced or degradable polymers Sustainable polymer synthesis Polymer synthesis used to ...

Plastic waste is a growing environmental crisis, with thermosets among the most problematic materials. These durable plastics ...

The study Biodegradable Innovations: Harnessing Agriculture for Eco-Friendly Plastics, published in the Journal of Xenobiotics, evaluates whether agriculture-based polymers can realistically replace ...

The PRecycling project aims to recover high-quality polymeric materials enabling up to 100% recycled content incorporation in ...

Plant-based polymers are heat-resistant, durable, and designed to decompose under mild conditions, via Diels–Alder reactions or Si–O bond cleavage, allowing components to be recycled or upcycled.

A team of researchers has demonstrated a cutting-edge plant-based plastic bag that can dissolve in water without producing ...

To upcycle the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invented a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material ...