Scientists at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have been working on a new polymer that could be the basis for lighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly radiation shielding. Led by Da ...

Cheap, strong, and versatile, plastic seemed like the perfect invention—until its staying power turned into a global headache ...

Carrots come in a rainbow of bright colors — red, orange, yellow and purplish black — because of compounds called carotenoids. They help support eye health by reacting with potentially harmful UV ...

Portugal-based Cabopol Polymer Compounds is opening a new production site in Monterey, Mexico. The new facility, set to come online in December, will initially include two production lines with an ...

In this interview, AZoM talks to Dirk Leister from Thermo Fisher Scientific about the role of torque rheometers in the field of polymer compound development. To start, could you give a brief overview ...

Sumika Polymer Compounds (Sumika), a leader in the development and manufacturing of high-quality polyolefin thermoplastic compounds and elastomers, and Flex-N-Gate Europe combined expertise to ...

Sumitomo Chemical is to establish Sumika Polymer Compounds Poland (SPCP), to enhance its polypropylene (PP) compound business. SPCP will start commercial production in the spring of 2022. PP compounds ...

The Italian compounding concern sees the purchase as a route to expand into new areas such as automotive, medical, and solar.

A photomobile polymer fiber containing anthracene carboxylic acid was prepared from a mixture of commercially available compounds and the photomechanical effects of the fiber were investigated. Upon ...

Ebrahim Sheykh, the deputy industry, mining and trade minister for the public industries, made the remarks in the inaugural ceremony of Iran's 9th International Masterbatch and Polymer Compounds ...

Yale researchers have identified a drinkable cocktail of designer molecules that interferes with a crucial first step of Alzheimer’s and even restores memories in mice, they report Jan. 2 in the ...