Laser marking of polymer materials has emerged as a transformative technique in surface engineering, offering a non-contact, high-precision method for modifying polymer substrates. By utilising ...

One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there’s not much that can eat it. The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and different enough from existing food sources that ...

To upcycle the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invented a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material ...