Why do plastic bags look and feel so different to plastic containers, such as soft drink bottles or yogurt tubs? The ...

Personal care formulators use polymers primarily as film formers, as fixatives in hair care products, and as rheology ...

UCLA researchers found that chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into the saliva and ...

Some brands of gum contain natural polymers from tree sap. Others contain synthetic polymers derived from the petroleum ...

Chewing gum may expose the body to microplastics. UCLA scientists identified tiny particles that break off and enter the body ...

(PB) and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) are widely used polymers in a number of products (including vehicle tires, ...

This research, published in Science Advances, experimentally and theoretically found that polymers (commonly referred to as plastics) made with thermally conductive fillers containing defects ...