The presentation Beyond Plastics will be given on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. at the First Religious Society's lower ...

Alongside shiny new industrial processing equipment-grinders, chutes, sorting tables and heavy metal baskets and racks, there ...

Doomsday prepping—making yourself and your home ready for some amorphous “stuff-hits-the-fan” event—has gone mainstream.

Researchers developed a sodium-doped amorphous SiBN catalyst, showcasing its potential for small molecule activation and ...

Transition metals have long been used as catalysts to activate small molecules and turn them into valuable products. However, as these metals can be expensive and less abundant, scientists are ...

Heterogeneous catalysts speed up chemical reactions by being in a different state than the reactants. They are efficient and ...

By manipulating the microstructure of a natural polyester, researchers in the US have developed a biodegradable adhesive ...

The amorphous state of matter is the most abundant form of visible matter in the universe, and includes all structurally disordered systems, such as biological cells or essential materials like glass ...

Plastic is unavoidable in today's world. We wear clothes made of it, encase our food in it, and fill our homes with it. The benefits of the omnipresent material are clear: It's cheap to create, ...

However, the low reversibility of olefin bonds impedes crystal self-correction, thus generating only polycrystalline or amorphous compounds instead of single crystals. In the study, published in ...

Under tensile stress, the amorphous polymer chains unfold, align, and reorient along the loading direction, significantly enhancing the material's tensile strength and toughness. The material also ...