Dendrimers are about to revolutionise the age of polymers

THERE may finally be an answer to disposing off the scourge of environment: plastics. Researchers at the National institute of Bioscience and Human Technology in Japan have homed in

A new method of painting plastics while they are being moulded guarantees uniformity of shade

PLASTIC, the bane of environmentalists worldwide, is on an upward swing in India. By 2000 AD, the per capita consumption level of plastic in the country is expected to go up to 2.5 kg from

IT WAS darkness at noon for Delhiites on June 6, when a huge blanket of smoke covered the sun as the 3,000 odd shops in Asia's biggest market of poly-vinyl- chloride (PVc) goods in Jwalapuri, west

Plastic and protein have joined hands for the common good of humankind. Jon Cooper and his colleagues at the University of Glasgow's Bio-Electronics Research Centre, Scotland, have successfully

Discarded plastic is being recycled into clothes

Malaysia has lifted a ban on the import of polypropylene and polyethylene, materials used in the plastics industry. The decision signals a temporary truce in its trade war with neighbouring