It’s estimated to take around 200 years for a piece of polyester clothing to break down meaning that every item of polyester ...

Plasticity or plastic deformability is a material's ability to be deformed by compression, tension or shear into a specific shape or geometry without breaking. Typically, ceramic materials exhibit ...

Zhang, Jianwei Jiang, Han Kang, Guozheng Jiang, Chengkai and Lu, Fucong 2015. A new form of equivalent stress for combined axial–torsional loading considering the tension–compression asymmetry of ...

Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, Northwestern University materials scientists have developed ...

As The Guardian reports, LEGO recently shared its goal to source 50 percent of its plastic from renewable and recycled materials by 2026. Most of LEGO’s bricks are currently made from cheap ...