For leading manufacturers, growth is now centered around sustainability, digitalization, and smart laboratory integration.

In a kind of addition-by-subtraction, chemists at the University of Florida have developed a technique to create highly ...

Global food and packaging companies, including Nestle , PepsiCo and Unilever have vowed to collaborate on cutting plastic use ...

Benzalkonium chloride (BAK) is a common preservative composed of quaternary ammonium compounds with 8–18 carbon alkyl chains, mainly C12, C14, and C16 homologs. Because BAK can adsorb to surfaces, ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Just under the forest floor, a vast fungal network known as mycelium builds, communicates and occasionally produces the fruiting bodies we call mushrooms. Now scientists are using this fungus to ...

Lab equipment maker Waters Corp raised its annual profit forecast on Tuesday, after beating third-quarter profit estimates on ...

Cambridge scientists have built a solar-powered leaf that turns carbon dioxide into sustainable fuel and everyday chemicals.

Researchers have discovered a groundbreaking, eco-friendly way to recycle Teflon, one of the world’s toughest plastics, into ...

UD chemical engineer wins the AIChE Langer Prize for efforts to harness biology to manage plastic waste sustainably ...