A ruthenium catalyst facilitated the polymerization, or polymer addition. Industrial firms have used this catalyst to make ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a groundbreaking method to ...

When a spider is spinning its web, its silk starts out as liquid and quickly turns into a solid that is, pound for pound, ...

ORNL researchers have created a method to transform waste plastics into high-performance materials by editing the polymers, ...

Despite a more widespread shift toward product recyclability, these types of linear systems are still especially prevalent in ...

Several in attendance spoke against its inclusion, board members advocated caution with the emerging technology, and the ...

ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that ...