Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have created a bacterial cellulose-based ...

Plastics are inherently dielectrics or electrical insulators, with electrons tightly bound within their covalent polymer chains, preventing the free flow of charge. This property makes them ...

Discussions by organizations promoting a circular, cradle-to-cradle, sustainable plastics economy often address packaging and single-use materials, not engineering plastics and polymers. That's ...

Two faculty researchers from the Department of Plastics Engineering have won grants for projects that aim to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in landfills and the environment each year. Prof.

Mac Chen and Ed Gadasu had the same considerations when it came to their senior design project: they wanted something to round out their studies of the materials field and something that felt ...

A group of 30 French and European experts worked on the collective scientific assessment[1], drawing on a corpus of over 4,500 international scientific publications as well as statistics and ...

Requirement 2: Both thesis and non-thesis students will pick from one of the following Certificate programs and fulfill their required courses as an area of specialization (some of the certificate ...