Crude oil provides the principal source of carbon for the whole of the chemical industry, to fabricate products ranging from plastics to pharmaceuticals. However, oil is a finite resource, and ...

An innovative filtering material may soon reduce the environmental cost of manufacturing plastic. The material, a metal-organic framework, can extract ethylene, the key ingredient in the most common ...

Plastic bottles litter most of the world. There have been ongoing efforts to find methods to biodegrade PET, a very common plastic used for bottled water. British scientists have discovered an ...

"Theoretically, you can produce any molecule you want from a plastic component such as ethylene glycol," he says. "As long as you can genetically engineer the bacteria to do this." He emphasizes that ...

IT has been shown elsewhere 1–4 how the photo-ionization yield curves of ethylene and of some halogenated derivatives of the ethylene molecule can be interpreted by means of step functions resulting ...