Chemists develop mineral plastics with numerous positive properties from sustainable basic building blocks and, together with biologists, demonstrate the material's excellent microbiological ...

Harrowing moments spent hovering over a broken bit of plastic with a tube of superglue may not be a part of your future if some new research from University of Illinois pans out. Materials science ...

Plastic has become an essential element of our daily lives, finding its way into a wide array of products, including but not limited to toys, apparel, household items, electronic devices, automobiles, ...

A recent article in Nature Communications introduced a plastic ceramic electrolyte (PCE) synthesized by hybridizing a dynamically crosslinked aprotic polymer with ionically conductive ceramics. In ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have unveiled a groundbreaking plastic material, known as VPR, that combines remarkable properties rarely found in a single substance: strength, flexibility, ...

Stanford University material scientists have devised the first synthetic, plastic skin that is conductive, sensitive to touch, and capable of repeatedly self-healing at room temperature. The most ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Adding a food additive to damaged polymers can help restore them to full strength, say scientists at the University of Illinois who cooked up the novel, self-healing system. The ...

A research team at the Convergence Research Center for Solutions to Electromagnetic Interference in Future-mobility (SEIF) at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has created a novel ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Earth Day is coming up this Saturday, but CBS News and KDKA-TV have a commitment to covering stories about the earth year-round. In the third part of our week-long "Earth 365" ...

Imagine a plastic like this: harder than common plastics, non-flammable, and even with self-healing properties. But that is not all! It can be produced at room temperature in water, which is very ...