Colorado State University polymer chemists have taken another step toward a future of high-performance, biorenewable, biodegradable plastics. Publishing in Nature Communications, the team le... Read more
There’s a good chance you’ve touched something made out of the polyolefin polymer today. It’s often used in polyethylene products like plastic bags or polypropylene products like diapers. As... Read more
Biodegradable plastics from a plentiful natural resource Wolfgang Glasser says he was hesitant at first when a start-up company asked him to be their chief scientific officer. But then the... Read more
Plastic could provide a much more affordable manufacturing alternative As landfills overflow with discarded plastics, scientists have been working to produce a biodegradable alternative that... Read more
Image by cesarharada.com via Flickr Plastics surround us. A vital manufacturing ingredient for nearly every existing industry, these materials appear in a high percentage of the products we... Read more
