Polyethylene has a number of advantageous properties, but biodegradability is not one of them. A team of researchers has now developed a plastic which has similar thermoplastic properties to ...

Incorporating fluorine into certain polyesters accelerates polymer chain formation, makes longer chains accessible, and enables targeted modification of the material's properties. As a result, ...

In 2013, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Dr François Englert and Dr Peter W Higgs for their work on the Higgs boson. 1 Evidence for the existence of this particle had been obtained the ...