The presentation Beyond Plastics will be given on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. at the First Religious Society's lower ...

Alongside shiny new industrial processing equipment-grinders, chutes, sorting tables and heavy metal baskets and racks, there ...

Doomsday prepping—making yourself and your home ready for some amorphous “stuff-hits-the-fan” event—has gone mainstream.

Researchers developed a sodium-doped amorphous SiBN catalyst, showcasing its potential for small molecule activation and ...

Transition metals have long been used as catalysts to activate small molecules and turn them into valuable products. However, as these metals can be expensive and less abundant, scientists are ...

Professor Yuji Iwamoto, the lead researcher, explains, "We used a nitrogen-containing organosilicon polymer, known as ...

By manipulating the microstructure of a natural polyester, researchers in the US have developed a biodegradable adhesive ...

But this time, the urban landscape is different: Modern homes are full of plastic, turning house fires into chemical-laced infernos that burn hotter, faster, and more toxic than their predecessors.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States ...

Plastic is unavoidable in today's world. We wear clothes made of it, encase our food in it, and fill our homes with it. The benefits of the omnipresent material are clear: It's cheap to create, ...

However, the low reversibility of olefin bonds impedes crystal self-correction, thus generating only polycrystalline or amorphous compounds instead of single crystals. In the study, published in ...