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 ...

Plastics are made of polymers: long and flexible chain molecules formed by reacting together smaller molecules called monomers. In bulk or at high concentrations, polymer chains entangle with each ...

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

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

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