This plant-based plastic is as strong as traditional petroleum-based plastic, but its properties can be tailored to suit ...

Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in ...

Researchers are developing electronics that disappear to order. When the FM frequencies are removed in Norway in 2017, all old-fashioned radios will become obsolete, leaving the biggest collection of ...

A federal grant matched by New York state and RIT is enabling university researchers to study a competitive solution to polyethylene mulch and identify a more sustainable alternative to conventionally ...

Waste not Chicken feathers could be the backbone of the next major plastics revolution, according to a US research team. Every year in the US, industrial poultry farms produce about 2 million tonnes ...

Over 150 businesses, industry associations, NGOs, scientists and politicians have issued a call to end the use of some so-called 'degradable' plastic over concerns that these materials do not properly ...

To seamlessly integrate electronics with the natural world, materials are needed that are both stretchable and degradable -- for example, flexible medical devices that conform to the surfaces of ...

Imagine your old phone dissolving away after you’ve traded up, or a pacemaker that’s absorbed by the body when it’s no longer needed. Such gadgetry may not be far off: Scientists have developed a ...

Polyethylene is the most abundantly manufactured plastic in the world. Due to properties like durability, it has many diverse, and even long-term uses. Chemists have now incorporated polar groups in ...

In a bid to address the critical issue of antibiotic resistance, one needs anti-resistance antibiotics, which are degradable. Yonath's studies on the structure and function of the ribosome formed the ...

Stanford scientists have developed a stretchy semiconductor that dissolves over time. Research into extreme and novel semiconductors isn’t just trendy—it’s vital to future technology. This project is ...