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

Researchers have created a new class of ultra-strong adhesives that can haul a full-size car using nothing more than a thin strip of material, turning what sounds like a party trick into a serious ...

As electronic devices continue to become more compact, flexible, and wearable, materials suppliers are coming under increased pressure to surpass traditional limitations. From foldable displays and ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural polymers don’t. By mimicking tiny structural features used in DNA and proteins ...