Scientists turn waste polyethylene into stronger, multifunctional materials using innovative two-step modular assembly ...

Polyethylene (PE) is a semicrystalline polymer that is one of the most extensively manufactured polymers in the world for consumer products and packaging. Shopping bags, milk bottles, storage ...

This study presents a flexible strategy to convert polyethylene waste into advanced materials, featuring tunable properties ...

Today’s plastic grocery bag could be tomorrow’s high-tech track suit, thanks to fabric made from polyethylene—the same polymer that is used to make plastic wrap. Analyses suggest that the fabric could ...

Polyethylene (PE) is widely used in different fields and for various industrial and domestic purposes. Analysis of polyethylene materials is vital to ensure the presence and suitability of these ...

The "High-density Polyethylene Global Market Report by Feedstock, Application, Manufacturing Process, Countries and Company ...

TECNARO (Ilsfeld/Germany), BB Engineering (Remscheid/Germany), FALKE (Schmallenberg/Germany) and the Institut für ...

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 - ...

Creating plastics by linking small molecules, known as monomers, together to make large ones, known as polymers, was one of the triumphs of 20th-century chemistry—and no polymer was more triumphant ...