Pretty much everything that doesn’t grow on trees has to be some kind of plastic, right? It seems like the world in the 21st century is inundated with the stuff—from medical supplies to kids’ toys and ...

All materials are subject to fatigue and environmental wear and tear, which causes them to degrade over time. This affects the properties of the material and eventually leads to their failure.

To address the growing concern of accumulated non-degradable plastic waste in the oceans, a research group at Cornell University, USA, has developed a novel high-strength synthetic polymer called ...

Overview of organic synthetic macromolecules -- Thermal decomposition of polymers -- Review of analytical pyrolysis instrumentation -- Information generated from analytical pyrolysis studies -- ...

Nylon, rubber, silicone, Teflon, PVC -- these are all examples of human-made polymers -- long chains of repeated molecular units that we call monomers. While polymers also exist in nature (think wool, ...