Modern polymer materials face a fundamental challenge: they must remain strong and durable during use, yet ideally degrade ...
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Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...
Nylon-6 is a tough, non-biodegradable plastic that cannot be recycled by conventional methods. A new way has now been introduced by a team from the USA in the journal Angewandte Chemie: with an easily ...
The March/April 2026 issue of Supply Chain Management Review examines how supply chain leaders are managing supplier risk, circular supply chain design, AI-driven retail planning, CPG network ...
Chemists grew the longest conductive polymer chains ever made on a surface, nearly one micrometer long, using a clean process ...
Ring-opening polymerization (ROP) has emerged as a highly versatile synthetic strategy to produce polymers with controlled architectures and tailored functionalities. By utilising cyclic monomers, ROP ...
Kyushu University researchers have directly observed, for the first time, how individual polymers—chain-like molecules—behave when in contact with solid surfaces. Published in the Journal of the ...
The field of macromolecular and materials chemistry encompasses the synthesis, structure, and properties of large molecules and their assemblies, as well as the design of complex materials with ...