Modern polymer materials face a fundamental challenge: they must remain strong and durable during use, yet ideally degrade ...

A research team led by Prof. Boseok Kang at Sungkyunkwan University has uncovered the origin of polarity inversion, a long-standing phenomenon in polymer semiconductors that occurs only in certain ...

The words on this page mean something because they are assembled in a particular order and follow the complex rules of ...

Scientists convert plastic into acetic acid and unveil label-free microscopy; IAEA flags global radiation exposure ...

UB researchers want to provide regulators and others a quick and reliable way to assess sustainability claims.

Plastic was designed to last, and it has delivered on that promise a little too well. After decades of treating packaging, textiles, and consumer goods as disposable, scientists are now racing to ...

Cockroaches and their gut microbes can break down polystyrene and use it as energy, offering new clues for plastic waste ...