Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...

By adding citric acid and squid ink to a cellulose-based polymer, researchers created a variety of structurally colored ...

Plastics are one of the largest sources of pollution on Earth, lasting for years on land or in water. But a new type of ...

The coercive force, anisotropy field, and permeability spectra of magnetically soft, multilayer thin films sputtered onto plastic for use as identification markers or EMI shields is reported.

The coatings of FeAlCuCrCoMn high entropy alloy were deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering. The microstructure and the mechanical and corrosion properties of the coatings are investigated.

Although the researchers are still working to improve the material's electric and elastic properties, the potential is vast for its flexibility of electronic uses and eco-friendly structure.

Aimplas, a Spain-based technological center that provides solutions to the plastics industry, says it is leading the Bioprocess project, which aims to improve the mechanical and barrier properties of ...

Through the example of polylactide (PLA) and poly (1,4-butylene succinate) (PBS), the possibility of making sustainable “green nanocomposites” by slit die extrusion process in a single screw extruder ...