Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By copying how natural polymers fold and fall apart, researchers created materials that stay strong in use, then break down under ...

Plastics can be hard, plastics can be soft, but can plastics be both at the same time? Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have been exploring this question and produced a first-of-a-kind ...

At the Advanced Materials Show 2022, AZoM caught up with the CEO of Cambridge Smart Plastics, Andrew Terentjev. In this interview, we discuss the company's novel technologies and how they could ...

Plastics are unfortunately so cheap useful that they’ve ended up everywhere. They’re filling our landfills, polluting our rivers, and even infiltrating our food chain as microplastics. As much as we ...

Editor’s Note: The SCM thesis Get Smart: Reinventing Plastic Recycling in a Collaborative, Circular Supply Chain was authored by Kenneth Critchlow and Pedro Benitez and supervised by Dr. Eva Ponce ...

Agri-Plastics USA LLC is expanding the company's custom rotomolding capabilities by adding a Smart Persico machine. The company expects this machine to drive more innovation and efficiency. "This ...

Scientists have developed a new material that can change from soft and stretchy to hard and rigid after exposure to a catalyst and visible light. Inspired by living things from trees to shellfish, ...