Global plastic demand has driven its annual production from 1.5 M metric tons in 1950 to 367 M in 2020 1,2. However, the current ‘take-make-waste’ linear plastic system relies on large quantities of ...

Across industries, the adoption of circular economy principles is reshaping how products are designed, manufactured, and ...

A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...

Every year, hundreds of millions of tons of petrochemical-based plastics are produced, much of which ends up in the ...

University of Texas at Arlington engineering professor Sahadat Hossain explains how the unique mix of plastic and asphalt is made. He and a team of students are piloting the sustainable mix on a paved ...

In the last ~20 years, a multitude of natural enzymes have been discovered that can catalyze the breakdown of the common plastic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET ...

Requirement 2: Both thesis and non-thesis students will pick from one of the following Certificate programs and fulfill their required courses as an area of specialization (some of the certificate ...

Plastics are inherently dielectrics or electrical insulators, with electrons tightly bound within their covalent polymer chains, preventing the free flow of charge. This property makes them ...

Polymer science advancements are leading to a tenfold increase in plastics use in motion control components within five years. New thermoplastic composites approach metal strength and modulus but with ...