We're surrounded by plastics and other synthetic chemicals. Are you aware of these less obvious sources?

Plastic trash lining a mountain trail might not seem like the start of a chemistry breakthrough, but for Yuwei Gu, it was.

Two University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to develop new plastic ...

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

Yuwei Gu conceived this idea while hiking on a park trail and noticing plastic bottles littered around.

MPs have urged ministers to boost support for UK businesses developing natural, biodegradable alternatives to plastic ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic end up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials scientists ...

MIT says the two-dimensional nature of the polymer gives it strength not typically associated with plastic. An MIT dean sees the new two-dimensional polymer as appropriate for “applications where high ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...

Mixed plastics are technically challenging to recycle, resulting in most post-consumer-use mixed plastic products going to landfills or incinerators. Now, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National ...

This work turns what would otherwise be an agricultural liability into a potential input for advanced manufacturing.

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...