Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the American Chemistry Council, the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

Sustainable chemistry spinout Lixea is preparing to build a 25,000 tonne/year biomass processing plant producing commercial volumes of novel ...

VACUSAFE is a compact laboratory aspiration system providing a safe and efficient way to collect and contain biological liquid waste ... by evaporation of volatile solvents).

Plastic waste is a growing environmental crisis, with thermosets among the most problematic materials. These durable plastics, used in car tires, replacement hip joints, and aerospace coatings, resist ...

That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

Niron is currently transitioning from gram-scale lab production to ton-scale pilot production, with the first 1,500-ton facility expected to come online in 2026. You could potentially purchase a ...

It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, which uncovered it, is exploiting that property to recycle at least two major ...

Researchers have discovered that carbon black in black plastic enables efficient recycling when exposed to focused light. The ...

Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only nine per cent ...

The researchers demonstrated the membrane's performance in lab-scale experiments using a novel membrane to filter various solutions that were similar in content to the waste streams produced by ...

This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...

ORNL researchers developed a method to upcycle discarded plastics into high-value macromolecules, enhancing properties for sustainable applications.