In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It's now about 400 million tons—an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is inexpensive ...

Scientists have developed a new approach to significantly enhance the spatial resolution of distributed temperature sensing using plastic optical ... possibilities for high-resolution temperature ...

Professor Ariando and Dr. Stephen Lin Er Chow from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Physics have ...

NASA’s experiment showed that it was possible to modify an existing open source desktop 3D printer to print high temperature engineering plastics, and they even showed it could be done ...

At the core of the project is a newly developed solid unidirectional composite tape (UD tape) that aims to bring together the ...

Lab tests may help explain high levels of benzene in water after ... Scientists suspected that, among other possibilities, plastic drinking water pipes exposed to extreme heat released the ...