For instance, the mechanical properties and the rates of biodegradation ... although rare — are not unprecedented in synthetic polymer chemistry 4. In fact, the originality of the work reported ...

Figure 1: A schematic representation of molecular imprinting of a synthetic polymer. Figure 2: Biodistribution of melittin and MIP nanoparticles. The question remains: has a new era in molecular ...

Kevlar is a new synthetic polymer which is extremely strong and ... Nanoparticles improve the mechanical properties of a material, such as stiffness or elasticity. When incorporated into polymers ...

Like many others, they were looking for synthetic ... in a water-clear plastic with a lower melting temperature than PET that can be molded and extruded. These properties make PETG and other ...

When recycling, those highly crystalline properties of POM make it difficult ... achieved in the past five years on commonly known synthetic plastics, like PE, PET, and PS. However, there has ...

Synthetic materials, like plastic, are made from chemicals ... conductors of heat and electricity and some are magnetic. Their properties make them useful for objects such as cutlery, saucepans ...

Plastic’s history is chock-full of happy accidents, starting in the late 1860s when John Wesley Hyatt unintention-ally developed Celluloid, a synthetic plastic that he used as a substitute for ivory ...