Step aside hard, rigid materials. There is a new soft, sustainable electroactive material in town ... Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, Northwestern Engineering ...

“The combination of two unlikely partners — peptides and plastics – led to a breakthrough ... Firstly, compared to other hard ferroelectric materials – and even soft ones such as PVDF – the new ...

Plastics, Aster Chemicals and Energy, Taghleef Industries Group and Pro-Pac Group have begun a strategic partnership which ...

A FOGO kitchen caddy made using household recycled soft plastics has been released by Source Separation Systems and iQRenew, ...

Soft plastics recycling should be rolled out statewide. This should be paired with a gradual phase out of hard or impossible to recycle materials and products such as polystyrene and composite ...

A novel 3D-printed hard/soft switchable hydrogel developed by ... it achieves a hardness of 86.5 Shore D (comparable to hard plastics), a compression strength of 81.7 MPa, and a Young's modulus ...

We work hard to recycle the materials we collect ... and the infrastructure to recycle soft plastics at scale in the UK and the EU still has a way to go.' ...

Huge stockpiles of soft plastics remain in storage almost 20 months ... has called for better labelling on products to show it is hard to recycle. Related: Hundreds of supermarket items found ...

Step aside hard, rigid materials. There is a new soft, sustainable electroactive ... Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, Northwestern University materials scientists ...