To address the growing concern of accumulated non-degradable plastic waste in the oceans, a research group at Cornell University, USA, has developed a novel high-strength synthetic polymer called ...

Graphite sheets that are rolled into seamless tubes are called carbon nanotubes. With diameters of just a few nanometers and lengths up to centimeters, carbon nanotubes have received a great deal of ...

The polymers are made by thermal conversion of plastic scrap. The first delivery of pyrolysis oil for polymer production at the LyondellBasell site in Wesseling, Germany (Facial masks were briefly ...

Katherine Harry receives funding from RePLACE (Redesigning Polymers to Leverage a Circular Economy) funded by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy. Emma Rettner receives funding from ...