A team of materials scientists and engineers at ETH Zurich has developed a light-triggered chemical process for breaking down ...

A new discovery offers a promising way to break down stubborn plastics like Plexiglass into their original building blocks, ...

Researchers have reported a method for breaking down commercial polymers like Plexiglass into monomers, a form more desirable for reuse. This could help alleviate the growing plastic waste stream.

The possibilities for material design and production of plastic components are being expanded through 3D printing technology. However, there is a shortage of recyclable polymers that meet the ...

"Just by changing the amount of time you run each reaction for, the amount of catalyst ... experimenting to expand the properties with additional monomers. "We've spent 100 years trying to make ...

This type of reaction is a very important ... leads to the formation of syndiotactic polymers — macromolecules with an alternating sequence of monomer units of opposite stereoconfiguration ...

Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability in the world. Blunt force trauma to the brain, often from a bad fall or traffic accident, accounts for the deaths ...

The possibilities for material design and production of plastic components are being expanded through 3D printing technology. However, there is a shortage of recyclable polymers that meet the ...

A subsequent reaction with diisopropyl fumarate/benzoyl peroxide was used to produce a graft copolymer. The polymers were identified ... polymerization of vinyl monomers using microwave energy ...

This is often called the ‘nylon rope experiment’ because nylon continues to form until one of the monomers is used up ... with a choking smell, so the reaction should be carried out in ...

"Just by changing the amount of time you run each reaction for ... expand the properties with additional monomers. "We've spent 100 years trying to make polymers that last forever, and we've ...