Can recycled lab gloves capture carbon dioxide?
 The world is facing a climate crisis and a plastic waste crisis. Aarhus University chemist Troels Skrydstrup…
Creating Matter with Light: Breakthrough Method Creates Electrodes Using Visible Light
Linköping University scientists have used visible light to create electrodes from conductive plastics without the need for toxic…
AI streamlines search for recyclable food packaging polymers, study finds
Researchers from Cornell University in the US have streamlined the process of identifying chemically recyclable polymers using AI…
Chemistry in Pictures: Predicting a polymer palette
Structural color, which comes from light waves interacting with matter on the nanoscale, is found in many places…
Polymer physics offers fresh perspectives on neurodegenerative diseases
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have applied ideas from polymer physics to illuminate the mechanism behind a key…
Plastics recycling is in trouble
 Key Insights Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set…
Radical-enhanced photo-activated ultralong organic phosphorescence
Photophysical properties of the guests in crystal Three compounds r-MOP, s-MOP, and MOP were designed as the guests,…
What happens when microplastics reach the testes? Study shows autophagy and cell loss
Invisible plastic fragments from common tableware are turning up in semen; now, researchers reveal how nanoscale particles may…
Leveraging body dielectric polarization for ambient electromagnetic energy recovery via e-textile
Concept of body dielectric polarization-enabled body area networks Textile-based body area networks (BAN) require multiple sensors and wireless…