Tag: PlasticStar
New Way to Explore Energy Landscape of Glassy Materials
New Way to Explore Energy Landscape of Glassy Materials: John Crocker had expected to see a flat line — a familiar horizontal track with...
A Next Generation Material that Adapts to its History
A Next Generation Material that Adapts to its History: Inspired by living systems, researchers at Aalto University have developed a new material that changes...
NYC Tries Plastic Roads
NYC Tries Plastic Roads
If you can make a plastic road in New York City, can you make it anywhere?
The Big Apple is in the...
Transparent Plastic that’s Highly Conductive
Transparent Plastic that's Highly Conductive: It was a simple idea—maybe even too simple to work. Research scientist James Ponder and a team of Georgia...
Michigan Team Recycles Previously Unrecyclable Plastic
Michigan Team Recycles Previously Unrecyclable Plastic: PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the third...
Nanomaterials Treat Obesity Anywhere You Want
Columbia researchers discover that the cationic charged P-G3 reduces fat at targeted locations by inhibiting the unhealthy lipid storage of enlarged fat cells
Nanomaterials Treat...
Harvard Uses Advanced Materials to Create Advanced Integrated Chip
Device could advance quantum computing and quantum networks
Harvard Uses Advanced Materials to Create Advanced Integrated Chip: Optical photons are ideal carriers of quantum information....
Recycling Previously Unrecyclable Polyvinyl Chloride
by University of Michigan
Recycling Previously Unrecyclable Polyvinyl Chloride: PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the...
New Way to Print Microchip Patterns on Curvy Surfaces
by National Institute of Standards and Technology
New Way to Print Microchip Patterns on Curvy Surfaces: NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy...
The Future of Welding and Lightweight Vehicles
The Future of Welding and Lightweight Vehicles: Making vehicle structures out of a combination of metals and plastics could make them dramatically lighter, stronger,...
