The core advantages of the injection molding process lie in its high precision and adaptability: precision molds enable the ...

Step-by-step instructions on establishing a robust, repeatable plastic injection molding process.

Northwestern’s team turned to hydrogenolysis, a process that uses hydrogen gas and a catalyst to cut strong carbon-carbon ...

The process harnesses a new, inexpensive nickel-based catalyst that selectively breaks down polyolefin plastics consisting of polyethylenes and polypropylenes — the single-use kind that dominates ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the ...

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a groundbreaking nickel-based catalyst that could transform the way the ...

The inconvenience of separating plastics for recycling may soon be a thing of the past. A team of Korean researchers has ...

From your toothbrush to your bloodstream: how everyday plastics break down into fragments small enough to cross into your ...