Plastic toys widely sold in the country habour alarming levels of toxic chemicals, a new study has revealed, raising red flag about the safety of everyday playthings used by children.The research, ...

The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In this ...

Asia Pacific dominated the plastic packaging market share of 51.16% in 2023 | Modern Consumer Lifestyles along with & E-Commerce Growth to Fuel Market Expansion ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to make biodegradable packaging stronger while using less energy in the process ...

Tungsten is planned to be used as wall material in next-step fusion devices, including ITER and future fusion reactors, because of its favourable thermal and mechanical properties. However, ...

Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. “Certain single-use plastic containers, such as polyethylene terephthalate bottles, are not fully degradable but ...

The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller ... Importantly these materials derive their unique properties through the connectivity ...

However, the fundamental properties of water at interfaces with water-repelling substances — hydrophobic interfaces — such as orientational ordering, the enrichment of ions, hydrogen-bond ...

Beyond promoting crystallization, the study also found that PET glitter undergoes physical degradation during ... but its small size and plastic composition raise environmental concerns.

The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c08561.

Given only the sound of liquid pouring into a container, our objective is to automatically infer physical properties such as the liquid level, the shape and size of the container, the pouring rate, ...