Depolymerisation and statistical fragmentation of chains are generally the two different mechanisms of degradation of polymers. The rate and extent of degradation may be monitored by changes in a ...

Discover how polymers have transitioned from a history of degradation to a future where mechanical adaptability is opening avenues for materials that heal themselves, warn of high stress or can even ...

Japanese researchers have developed a new type of plastic that is as durable as its predecessors but able to decompose ...

The degradation of waste plastics into fuel for the recovery ... recovery of post-consumer plastics into feedstock chemicals and fuels is the wide variety of polymers present in the municipal solid ...

The degradation produces a relatively high fraction of monomeric benzoyl products that can be used as starting materials for ...

reducing radical polymer electrode degradation and increasing output voltages. The study, led by Ekaterina I. Izgorodina from Monash University in Australia, was experimentally verified at Waseda ...

Degradation of metals, glasses, minerals, polymers, ceramics, cements and composites in natural and engineered environments, as a result of various stimuli Computational and experimental studies ...