When the Environmental Protection Agency released its plan earlier this month for addressing marine litter, it named five Asian nations—China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam—as ...

Chemists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a “smart” polymer that could make industrial curing, 3D ...

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Most plastics are made from chemicals that come from petrol, gas or coal. They are made by heating these chemicals at a high temperature. When the plastic is soft it can be poured into a mould. Once ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

Near-infrared spectroscopy is a form of non-invasive imaging that applies near-infrared radiation (wavelengths 780 nm to 3,000 nm) to chemicals or biological subjects to measure differential ...