A team of researchers has demonstrated a way to use low-energy, visible light to produce polymer gel objects from pure monomer solutions. The work not only poses a potential solution to current ...

Rubber and plastics have become an integral part of modern life, without which humans cannot live. These materials are used in shoe soles, garden chairs, all types of films, DVDs, CDs, tubes, hoses, ...

The plastic industry is evolving rapidly, and polymer stabilizers are applied to prevent polymer degradation during manufacturing or usage. Alfa Chemistry, one of the leading suppliers of chemicals ...

J. Kurja and N. A. Mehl, in “Plastics Additives Handbook,” 5th ed., H. Zweifel, Ed., Hanser, Munich, 2001, chap. 18, p 949. B. Fillon, B. Lotz, A. Thierry, and J ...

The use of plastics materials has increased dramatically throughout the world over the past 50 years, and now stands at roughly 100 billion pounds. Commercial plastics are known as resins in North ...

Researchers have unearthed a robust physics-based mechanism that dictates the sliding strength, or resistance to slippage, of the most common type of surgical knot. In particular, they have found that ...

From its early beginnings during and after World War II, the commercial industry for polymers – long chain synthetic molecules of which “plastics” are a common misnomer – has grown rapidly. In 2015, ...