Eurofins Sustainability Services says its new testing method for recycled plastics in textiles is more accurate than existing ...

Jeong Kim at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Senior Researcher Sung-Bae Park, Professor Dong-Yeop Oh at Inha University, and Professor Je-Young Park at Sogang University ...

resolution sea polymer (modified polyester) has dissolution rates that are 1000 times faster than that of island polymer (polyester). The resulting nanofibers have a large surface area ...

Though very little polyester clothing currently gets recycled, the fiber is “a fantastic reversible polymer,” said Josse Kunst, a chemical engineer and the chief commercial officer at CuRe ...

CuRe’s process doesn’t break the polyester polymer right down into its monomer building blocks, but far enough to purify it, before reconstituting the polymer so it can be spun back into fibres.

Plastics, including polyester, are formed by taking individual chemicals called monomers and forming them into chains to create polymers. Essentially, Reju’s process breaks the polyester down ...

That led the researchers to wonder whether their polymer—a polyester they had created to encapsulate and deliver proteins—might be similarly effective at clearing biofilms. When it turned out ...

Traditionally, the synthesis of polymers with ester and amide groups required toxic ... The method is compatible with existing polyester manufacturing facilities with only minor modifications required ...