The plastics engineering and technology minor provides students with a foundation in the professional study of plastic materials and their applications. This minor ...

Polymers, defined as macromolecules composed of repeating chemical units or monomers, are the foundational building blocks of plastics – a class of versatile materials that have revolutionised ...

DANBURY, Conn.—The Society of Plastics Engineers has named the 2020 winners of the scholarships administered as part of the SPE Foundation. The foundation awarded 57 scholarships to 45 students ...

Polymers as power transmission parts. There was a time when people sneered at “plastic gears” – and bearings – figuring them Cracker-Jack box components, not considering the difference between a model ...

ZHOUSHAN, ZHEJIANG, CHINA, January 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The global plastics processing industry continues to ...

The global consulting firm says collecting and reprocessing more discarded plastic automotive components should be feasible. The company says two of the biggest opportunities to access more ...

Structure-property relationships of plastics, reactive processing of polymers, polyblends and additives, & new polymerization reactions. Intellectual property, focusing on U.S. patent law.

The Polymer Engineering Graduate Organization (PEGO-UML) builds a community within the graduate students in the Department of Plastics Engineering. The organization facilitates technical learning and ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...

Today, plastic is difficult to recycle because plastic waste is a mishmash of many different types of polymers with different chemical compositions as well as different additives such as dyes and ...

Methane-eating microbes could help convert one of the most powerful greenhouse gases into useful ...

Important everyday products—from plastics to detergents—are made through chemical reactions that mostly use precious metals ...