(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at IBM's Research facility in Almaden, San Jose (the same site where Watson was developed) has developed a one-step process for recycling polycarbonates into another ...

IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, has announced that researchers from the Almaden lab in San Jose, California, have discovered a new, one-step chemical process that converts recycled ...

After years of anticipation, 5G — the fifth generation of mobile broadband — is slowly becoming reality, and plastics will play a big part in it. The new technology enables close networking of devices ...

From the transparent cockpit canopy of fighter jets to everyday applications such as spectacle lenses and Blu-ray discs, polycarbonate plastics are valued for being light, strong and offering ...

“Polycarbonate is the foremost enginerring polymer out there,” Czuba says. “It’s the longest-used engineering polymer for the medical device industry." Benefits: Polycarbonate is clear, inert, can ...

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In the classification scheme for recycling polymers, polycarbonates typically fall into the forsaken “other” category. That means millions of tons of polycarbonates produced each year for compact ...

Röhm devrait compléter ses gammes de polymères en PMMA par l'acquisition de l'activité Functional Forms de Sabic, segment qui regroupe plaques et films en polycarbonates dédiés à des secteurs ...

Bisphenol A, or BPA, is a chemical widely used to make hard, clear plastics. It is an endocrine disruptor that has been linked to many negative health effects, including cardiovascular diseases and ...