Obviously, the most common method for synthesizing polymers with a carbon-carbon main chain backbone is vinyl polymerization, by which many industrially important polymers, including common plastics ...

Greetings from the Organizing Committee of WSEPCM-2026! It is our pleasure to invite you to join us as a Plenary Speaker at the 3rd World Summit and Expo on Polymers and Composite Materials which will ...

If you're like me and prefer salvaging skins and cosmetics that you don't use in PUBG, you may have gathered excessive amounts of Polymers. At first glance, you might not be able to pinpoint their ...

Plastics, which are polymeric materials composed of long chains of small molecules called monomers, are widely used in everyday life and industry due to their lightweight, good strength and ...

A partly decomposed shoe, covered in mussels, on a sunny pier. Algenesis submerged shoes made with its biodegradable polyurethane foam in the Pacific Ocean to demonstrate their decomposition. Credit: ...

In a deal that will combine two of the world’s leading engineering polymer businesses, Celanese has agreed to acquire most of DuPont’s Mobility and Materials unit for $11 billion. The businesses, ...

ORNL’s invention may change plastic’s environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can ...

Researchers' new polymer strategy shifts a centuries-old engineering paradigm with a molecular design that doesn't sacrifice stretchability for stiffness. Researchers at the University of Virginia ...

Scientists have invented tough, chemically recyclable polymers that maintain high performance under stress but can be precisely broken down and reused with no loss in quality. Their method uses a ...