Firing bricks and making mortar and cement is very costly, but organic chemists are working on more sustainable alternatives -- focusing on building materials made from waste products. In another move ...

A novel green recyclable rubber polymer developed by Australian scientists can help to reduce the ever-growing environmental impact of the traditional non-reusable synthetic and mineral materials used ...

Europe and North America are driving expansion of bio-based polymer and bio-based building block capacity while Asia remains ...

Australian scientists have created a new kind of rubber polymer that could make for more sustainable building materials. This versatile new material can be used on its own like regular rubber, or ...

MIT says the two-dimensional nature of the polymer gives it strength not typically associated with plastic. An MIT dean sees the new two-dimensional polymer as appropriate for “applications where high ...

Chemists discovered a new way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. Working with polyacrylate elastomers, they could increase the materials' resistance to tearing ...

Omniseal Solutions powers many of the world’s mobility from behind the scenes. They provide “mighty” and almost “invisible” critical sealing and polymer solutions. Such solutions are used to move and ...

Building things so small that they are smaller than the width of a human hair was previously achieved by using a method called two-photon polymerization, also known as 2PP—today's state-of-the-art in ...