Rutgers Chemist Yuwei Gu (at left) and graduate student Shaozheng Yin employ a gel permeation chromatography machine to measure the size of polymers and how they break down. Yuwei Gu was hiking ...
A team of materials scientists and engineers at ETH Zurich has developed a light-triggered chemical process for breaking down ...
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 ...
Lehigh University researchers are partnering with Dow Inc. on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project to investigate how microbes break down modified polysaccharides - viscosifiers widely ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Plastics make modern life safer and more convenient, from cellphones and cars to toys and packaging. But when discarded, they break down into tiny microplastics that pollute the ...