From household plastic packaging to the flexible frameworks that support wearable electronics, polymer materials form the ...

Plastic pollution is an evolving global environmental crisis. More than 90% of all plastics manufactured end up polluting the environment, where they can harm ecosystems and impact human health. This ...

As the global plastic pollution crisis intensifies, converting mountains of waste into valuable industrial raw materials has become a major priority for scientists and industry. Recently, a research ...

Scientists have developed a new chemical upcycling process that could help reduce plastic waste and support a more ...

Most drink bottle caps are made of polypropylene. Along with polyethylene they account for 60 percent of all plastic waste. Hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste are generated worldwide ...

Since their discovery in the 1950s, metallocenes—chemical compounds where a metal atom sits "sandwiched" between two carbon rings—have been at the heart of organometallic chemistry research, finding ...