A team reporting in ACS Applied Polymer Materials created a "living plastic" using two bacterial strains that worked together ...

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At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate chip cookie—golden-brown, thick and chewy. Unfortunately, you don't know who made the cookie to get the recipe from, so you decide to recreate it. Using ...

An illustration of one of Grove Biopharma’s protein-like polymers in sky blue and bright yellow. These protein-like polymers may help target intractable cancer-causing proteins. Credit: Saeed Najafi, ...

Lightweight, high-strength polymer composites are essential to modern engineering. Yet their manufacturing remains complex, slow, and often reliant on manual adjustments. In a forward-looking analysis ...

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Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in their quest to solve our microplastic problem. In a study published in the ...

GAFFNEY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The South Carolina Governor’s Office announced Tuesday that are new jobs coming to Cherokee County. Fenner Precision Polymers (Fenner) has selected Gaffney to establish ...

One of the most promising types of batteries being developed is the rechargeable aluminum battery (AlB). This is built using one of the most abundant, inexpensive and recyclable metals available today ...

You’ll often hear plastic pollution referred to as a problem. But the reality is that it’s multiple problems. Depending on the properties we need, we form plastics out of different polymers, each of ...