Perennial Polymers is turning urban leaf waste into biodegradable plastic without using food crops. First-generation ...

New research shows a microbial enzyme that degrades biodegradable polyesters also resists penicillin and similar antibiotics.

LONDON, Nov. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Revenue Insights The global specialty biodegradable polymer market is entering a pivotal phase of accelerated growth as industries worldwide confront ...

From your car's navigation display to the screen you are reading this on, luminescent polymers—a class of flexible materials that contain light-emitting molecules—are used in a variety of today's ...

Man enzyme” that helps bacteria devour certain types of plastic and may offer new hope in the fight against plastic pollution ...

While natural polymers, including starches and cellulose, are still commonly used in biomedical research, the utilization of synthetic biodegradable polymers in pharmaceutical and tissue-engineering ...

Polyphosphoesters, molecules containing phosphorus as the central element, are easily traceable without the need for contrast agents, thanks to developments by researchers from the University of ...

Researchers in India coated banana bracts, fish scales, and paper with a newly soluble polyaniline to build room-temperature, ...

Pollution affects human health and the environment in many ways. Air, water, and land pollution continue to damage ecosystems, with conventional materials—especially plastics—being a primary ...

Biodegradable polymers such as polylactic acid (PLA), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) offer sustainable alternatives to conventional plastics but often suffer from ...

Biodegradable polymers are a type of polymer that exists both naturally and can be synthesized in laboratories. This special class of polymer is broken down naturally by microbial processes to produce ...