When the going gets tough for certain bacteria, they form into spores that can withstand the harshest of environments. Scientists have now utilized that fact to produce "living plastic" that ...

The world has a big plastic problem that it's yet to fix. We're trying to reduce our reliance on plastic, but that's seemingly impossible in modern society. The material is too important for our daily ...

The petrochemical industry produces more than 88 million tons of polyethylene, making it the most common plastic in the world. Scientists have found a new way to upcycle it, according to a study ...

Dionisios G. Vlachos has plastic on the mind. The stuff fills up landfills, but finding a second life for it seems like a fool’s errand. Vlachos compares it to building a house: “It’s difficult to ...

The chainlike molecules of polyethylene have the cunous ability to disentangle themselves and form crystals. The study of nearly perfect crystals can suggest ways to improve all linear polymers ...

FROM several investigations it is known that in solid polyethylene which has undergone severe mechanical treatment a second crystalline modification may occur besides the normal rhombic one 1. In the ...