Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such ...

Now, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have come up with a method of recycling these polymers that uses ...

Polyethylene oxide (PEO), a nonionic hydrophilic polymer, is one of the most widely used polymers for extending the drug release. This review mainly focuses on the PEO marketed by, but not limited to, ...

An international research group demonstrated the first perovskite solar cells on polycarbonate substrates, suitable for ...

Polyethylene and polypropylene make up roughly ... “This combination of tungsten oxide on silica and sodium on alumina is like taking two different types of dirt and having them together ...

Polyethylene and polypropylene plastics are a major source of post-consumer plastic ... leaving one piece with a reactive carbon-carbon double bond. Subsequently, a tungsten oxide on silica catalyst ...

At the University of California, Berkeley, a new chemical process claims to 'essentially vaporize' polyethylene, ...

A second catalyst, tungsten oxide on silica, added the carbon atom ... which was a feature of the researchers' earlier process to deconstruct polyethylene. Such double bonds are an Achilles ...

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adds a carbon-carbon double bond to the plastic's polyethylene polymer. The other two (tungsten oxide on silica) use this ...