Photo by Muffin from Pexels Durable, pliable, and strong, there is no limit to what plastics can be used for. But what if you had to pick just a handful of applications? Which applications would you choose? Maybe its plastic bottles and coolers ...
HP’s Unbreakable Flexible Display
The first affordable, flexible electronic displays were recently revealed by HP and Flexible Display Center (FDC) at the Arizona State University (ASU). Plastic was predominately used to develop these paper-like computer displays, which makes the device portable and more energy ...
Conducting Plastics
Alberto Morpurgo and his team of researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands recently attached a micrometer-thick crystal of an organic polymer to a similarly thin organic crystal of a second polymer creating a thin but strongly conducting ...
Strong, Light, Transparent Plastic
Researchers from the University of Michigan (UM) have developed a composite plastic, which they say is strong as steel, but much lighter and transparent. The material’s molecular structure mimics that of the iridescent material that lines mussel and oyster shells ...