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Food packaging and other disposable plastic items could soon be composted at home along with organic waste thanks to a new sugar-based polymer.
The degradable polymer is made from sugars known as lignocellulosic biomass, which come from non-food crops such as fast-growing trees and grasses, or renewable biomass from agricultural or food waste.
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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University make new material to clean up oil spills in factories or on the ocean, and conserve the oil.
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South Korean scientists succeed in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals, heralding the creation of environmentally conscious plastics.
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 | Two-dimensional carbon layers, so-called graphenes, are regarded as a possible substitute for silicon in the semiconductor industry. The electronic properties of these layers can be varied by "building in" specific arrays of holes in their structure. Physicists at Empa, together with chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in synthesizing a graphene-like porous polymer with atomic accuracy. ...> Full Article |
 | A new organic material lets both positive and negative charges flow efficiently. It permits a simpler design of organic electronics, using a single material for transporting positive and negative charges. ...> Full Article |
Immobilized microbes can break down potentially harmful phthalates, according to researchers in China, writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution. The microbes might be used to treat industrial waste water and so prevent these materials from entering the environment.
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One-step process derives raw material for fuels and plastic from plants rather than crude oil
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The inexpensive plastic now used to manufacture CDs and DVDs may soon be put to use in improving the integrity of electronics in aircraft, computers and iPhones. Thanks to a pair of grants from the US Air Force, a team of UH researchers have demonstrated ultra-high electrical conductive properties in these plastics. The findings are chronicled in a recent issue of the Journal of Applied Physics.
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A team of Baylor University researchers who have identified a variety of low-cost products that can be manufactured from coconuts in poor coastal regions have now developed a way to use coconut husks in automotive interiors.
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 | Theoretical chemist provides focus to years of unexplained behavior of molecules moving in plastics ...> Full Article |
Researchers are exploring how to program bacteria's DNA to find, metabolize and neutralize Bisphenol-A, the toxic chemical found in many of today's plastics.
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 | Researchers are a step closer to turning plants into 'biofactories' capable of producing oils which can be used to replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of products. ...> Full Article |
China turning to the technologies that could manufacture plastics with plant fiber and starch
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 | Chemists have set a new world record for the shortest chemical bond ever recorded between two metals, in this case, two atoms of chromium. ...> Full Article |
 | Once plastics have been built into a car, they are rarely recycled. Compressed into granulate material, the shredded plastic parts are usually too indiscriminately mixed to permit any further use. Researchers have now found a way of separating the different types of plastic. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers are tapping into the power of wastewater to produce environmentally-friendly plastics. ...> Full Article |
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