Two University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to develop new plastic ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...

Hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York, the Rutgers chemist saw plastic bottles scattered along the path and ...

image: Researchers have developed and demonstrated an efficient and scalable technique that allows them to manufacture soft polymer materials in a dozen different structures, or “morphologies,” from ...

Designing plastics that can be broken down easily after their use phase have often required a trade-off between stability and ...

In modern times, manufacturers produce highly specialized materials for a wide array of uses, called polymers. Polymers have a variety of purposes owing to their versatile properties, ranging from ...

Could a simple chemistry idea end plastic pollution? Discover how scientists created programmable plastics that degrade on a ...

Scientists have come up with a new technique to evaluate the mechanical forces generated in polymer crystallization as they cool down from their molten state. They used small, fluorescent molecules to ...