Engineered Bacteria Eat Waste Plastic and Make Spider Silk – “Nature’s Kevlar”
Scientists have created a method to transform plastic waste into biodegradable spider silk using bacteria, providing an innovative and sustainable ...
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Scientists Develop Polymers That Defeat Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
By Shana K. Hutchins, Texas A&M University December 27, 2023Scientists have developed a novel family of polymers that effectively kills ...
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3M’s stock falls after Dutch minister holds company liable for PFAS damage
Shares of 3M Co. took a dive Wednesday toward the lowest close in more than 10-years, after investors were reminded ...
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Water resistant coatings derived from self-healing polymers
U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new material by combining self-healing polymers into a ...
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Polymers “click” together using green chemistry
SOF4 is a gas that was discovered over a hundred years ago but is rarely used because it is difficult ...
Read moreNew EU rules would permit use of most polymers without checks, experts warn | Plastics
New rules on chemicals to be debated by the EU this week would allow most polymers to be used without ...
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New light on making two-dimensional polymers
An international research team with members from Linköping University, the Deutsches Museum and the Technical University of Munich, among others, ...
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Powerful polymers: ORNL study provides new insights into N95’s COVID-19 filter efficiency
When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Parans Paranthaman suddenly found himself working from ...
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