Checking the cleanness of a sample of steel can be a time consuming business. The usual way of going about it is to use metallographic techniques to prepare a thin slice of the material being analysed ...

When architects design houses and contractors determine how to carry out those designs, they make decisions about building materials that have ethical consequences. Aluminum, for example, takes a lot ...

Progress in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology has enabled the precise analysis of polymeric materials in the solid state. It is well known that NMR provides a wide range of ...

The plastics industry is evaluating new circularity solutions for materials needed for packaging that may not have a viable alternative compared with other materials targeted for elimination or ...