Car tires, replacement hip joints, bowling balls—these and other items are made from a class of plastics called thermosets, ...

Researchers have created a recyclable, bio-based alternative to thermoset plastics using dihydrofuran (DHF). Cornell ...

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 ...

A one-pot method for producing a range of degradable, partially recyclable thermosetting plastics by polymerising the same ...

The research team say the process, if scaled up, could help bring about a "circular economy" for many throwaway plastics - with the plastic waste converted back into the monomers used to make ...

Plastics can be engineered for specific uses by matching up the properties of the plastic to the job it will ... joining of many small molecules called monomers. The uses of plastics are related ...