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Researchers develop new biodegradable plastic with thermoplastic properties similar to polyethylene
Phys.org
Polyethylene has a number of advantageous properties, but biodegradability is not one of them. A team of researchers has now developed a plastic which has similar thermoplastic properties to polyethylene but is also biodegradable. The material in question is a semicrystalline polyester that breaks down fully to its starting materials using mild chemical or biological processes, as the team explain in their study published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
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Fixing the broken supply chain
Plastics Today
The past two years have demonstrated that the familiar formula of minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency in global supply chains is no longer enough. The system of just-in-time inventory failed miserably. Now, supply chain analysts insist that redundancy and resilience should be added to the equation to decrease supply chain disruptions.
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3D printing method fabricates complex metal plastic composite structures
Plastics Technology
Researchers at Waseda University of Japan and Nanyang Technological University of Singapore recently published a paper describing what they call multimaterial digital light processing 3D printing — a process that can fabricate metal plastic composite structures with arbitrarily complex shapes. Waseda’s Shinjiro Umezu and Kewei Song along with Hirotaka Sato from Nanyang published the study in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
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Bioplastic packaging continues growth
Packaging Strategies
Precedence Research, a worldwide market research and consulting organization, has found that the bioplastic packaging market size is expected to approach $58 billion by 2032, with a corporate annual growth rate of 14.02% over the next decade.
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Meals on Mars to be made from plastic waste, says NASA-affiliated 3D food tech expert
Interesting Engineering
The days of tang and freeze-dried ice cream are far gone in the world of space technology. To find ways to grow food in space, organizations, including NASA, JAXA, and the European Space Agency, are collaborating with the food business.
Interesting Engineering learned from a panel of experts at the Consumer's Electronic Show 2023 the kind of solutions being developed to provide humans food during extended space flight- and eventually, habitation.
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Good salaries, long-term job opportunities keep plastics engineers satisfied
Plastics Today
The role of a plastics engineer runs the gamut from designing, developing, and testing molds and materials for various industries, ranging from consumer goods to medical products, robotics, and other technologies. Engineers also design, implement, and review procedures and equipment involved in the manufacturing process. Responsibilities can include researching automation techniques, testing systems for efficiency, and even planning factory layouts to optimize production.
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New drugs from plastic waste
Mirage News
Plastic waste is one of the most significant ecological and economic problems of our time, scientists say. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team has now introduced a chemical-biological method for upcycling polyethylene waste: Catalytic cleavage is used to make carboxylic diacids that are subsequently converted into pharmacologically useful natural products by genetically engineered fungi.
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