The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a sharp rise in the use of plastics globally. To prevent the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV ...

Many disposable objects are made of black plastic, which has so far proven to be very hard to recycle. US scientists have devised a new method of recycling black polystyrene, however, simply using ...

Nano', researchers from the French National Institute for Agricultural, Food and Environmental Research (INRAE) closely examined the impact of polystyrene nanoplastic particles on the intestines and ...

Dispersions of polymer particles in a liquid phase (latexes) have many important applications in coatings technology, medical imaging, and cell biology. A team of researchers has now developed a ...

The first major winter storm of the year in Lake Tahoe brought more than just snow to its sandy shores — it also spread hundreds of thousands of pieces of polystyrene into the lake. The plastic foam ...

Plastics are not inert: they gradually break into fragments over time, forming micro- and then nanoplastics (i.e., particles ...

"While only a single small dose of polystyrene particles was fed to the mice, people are exposed daily to a range of micro- and nanoplastics. Therefore, we cannot draw direct conclusions on the ...

Ray McIntyre clearly had no idea of the toxic plague he was unleashing on the world when he accidentally invented 'expanded polystyrene' more than 80 years ago. In 1941, the industrial scientist was ...

While nanosuspensions and microsuspensions are widely-used in the industry, the characterization of the dispersion state, both in the native and concentrated form (such as slurries or vaccines), ...