Researchers have finally made a breakthrough in how to break down plastic effectively without needing harsh chemicals.

Scientists developed a new method for breaking down one of the most common plastics to a byproduct that can be upcycled into ...

A new method inspired by coral reefs can capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transform it into durable, ...

Plastics are deeply woven into modern life, valued for their strength, clarity, flexibility, and affordability. However, the production and disposal of these materials pose serious environmental ...

Since evaporating water takes energy and cools the surface – which is also how your body cools down on a hot day as you sweat ...

About 100 million metric tons of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), one of the world's most commonly used plastics, are ...

A team of materials scientists from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Italiano ...

Architected materials provide a pathway to achieve properties beyond those of monolithic materials. This Perspective discusses complex architecture designs and their fabrication, characterization ...

The microscopic shards of plastic found in every corner of the planet may be exacerbating antibiotic resistance, a new study has found.

Perotto and colleagues took advantage of the thiol groups on the cysteine amino acids in keratin. They thought they could ...

The collaboration between Fedrigoni and Papkot aims to provide large-scale access to sustainable, plastic-free packaging ...