KIT researchers lay the foundation for new materials and chemical processes by synthesizing an unusual molecule. Researchers ...

The chemical is used to make many everyday products from plastics and textiles to antifreeze and disinfectants.

Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

Scientists have discovered a potentially greener way to produce a crucial industrial chemical used to make many everyday products from plastics and ...

New gas detection system combines organic sensors with AI to identify complex gas mixtures and nearly identical compounds ...

Three RIKEN physicists have discovered how tiny tubes of carbon spit out light that is more energetic than the light shone on them. This finding could help to exploit the process in applications such ...