Polyethylene and polypropylene account for two-thirds of the world's plastics. But the polymers' popularity has an equally ...

Researchers have developed an inexpensive and potentially scalable approach that uses a commercially available peroxide to bind polyethylene and polypropylene together, thereby creating a more useful, ...

MET-OL thermoplastic technology transforms high molecular weight polybutylene terephthalate into low-viscosity oligomers.

Can algae-based polymers replace plastic? Discover how renewable, biodegradable materials from algae are reshaping ...

A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below: US012203862B1 (12) United States Patent ...

Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to ...

Key Laboratory of High-Performance Synthetic Rubber and Its Composite Materials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China School of Applied ...

and a description of the corresponding phase diagrams and relevant physical properties. The applicability of the theory is illustrated by a large number of concrete examples pertaining to the various ...

This book is an interdisciplinary review of the effect of fracture on life, following the development of the understanding of fracture written from a historical perspective. After a short introduction ...