The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus—just the ...

Polymer degradation occurs when polymeric materials break down over time and lose their physical attributes due to environmental influences like heat, light, chemicals, or mechanical stress.

According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all marine pollution, with 8–10 million metric tons of plastic making its ...

They discovered that the process begins in the soft layers, which grow weaker over time due to environmental degradation and ...

The findings explain how most common plastics shed nanoscopic pieces into the environment – not just when they’re burned or crushed, but slowly and quietly, just by sitting out in the open.

Every year, thousands of tons of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer ...

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Understanding polymer degradation is critical for numerous applications—to uphold and extend polymer lifespan, deliberately design materials that degrade over time for purposes like medical implants ...