Plastics are materials comprising of a wide variety of synthetic and semi-synthetic organic polymers, which are malleable and easily molded to different shapes. Due to their low cost, ease of ...

While plastics are very useful on their own, they can be much stronger when reinforced and mixed with a range of fibers. Not surprisingly, this includes the thermoplastic polymers which are commonly ...

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 ...

Not all polymers are plastics, but all plastics are polymers. And organic (carbon-based) polymer plastics, known mostly for being insulators, in some cases make excellent conductors and semiconductors ...

Polypropylene (PP)-knitted fabrics were finished with β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and crosslinked with citric acid (CTR). The polyCTR–β-CD polymer-coated fibers were wash resistant. We report that the rate ...

Scientists of the N.M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBHF RAS) We have created a new composite material with a wide range of applications, which has ...