ECOCCUBE uses 100% recycled waste plastic as its core material. WES-Tec Global relies on a proprietary process it calls ...

Drifting at sea, isolated on a space station, or stuck in a war zone, engineers trying to build new things or patch together a repair are often constrained by the materials they have at hand. But what ...

The plan is to develop a cost-effective, energy-efficient technology for making innovative plastics based on polybutylene ...

It was hailed as a wonderful thing: During the oil boom in the 1950s, chemists began to render the waste coming out of refineries into plastic — plastic packaging, plastic furniture, plastic fibers ...

Polymer science advancements are leading to a tenfold increase in plastics use in motion control components within five years. New thermoplastic composites approach metal strength and modulus but with ...

A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...