No other plastic in existence today has the combination of performance qualities that vinyl has. Because of this, vinyl makes it possible to provide exceptional patient care while controlling ...

Traditional polyesters are obtained via ring-opening polymerization (ROP), but significant research is currently directed at designing new biodegradable vinyl polymers with esters groups in the ...

Not a day goes by without news of microplastics in our oceans. There are not many efficient methods of recycling plastics without compromising quality. A beacon of hope was recently lit when ...

Vinyl is often referred to as the "infrastructure plastic," and with good reason. More than half of all vinyl produced annually in the United States is used to manufacture construction or furnishing ...

Every year, about 10 million patients get cataract surgery to replace the clouded crystalline lens in their eye with a clear artificial one. But these silicone or flexible plastic lenses can dislocate ...

Vinyl acetate is an important industrial monomer that is used to make homopolymers and copolymers with a wide variety of applications. It is a volatile, flammable liquid that, like many esters, has a ...

Lindsey Reynolds is a writer and enthusiast in all things sustainable. Her work has appeared in Garden & Gun, CNN Eatocracy, The Daily Mississippian, Good Grit, and Oxford magazine. Vinyl is a ...

We know that a variety of things around us is made up of plastics. Some plastics are hard or soft, colourful, some look like wood or metal etc. Plastics have changed the world. Isn’t it! Do you know ...