Nanotechnology is considered a highly valued technology to reduce the current
environmental problem that is derived from plastic accumulation. The need to recycle and …

Due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, and surge in modern human activities, water
contamination is a major threat to humanity globally. Contaminants ranging from organic …

The deterioration of the properties of post-consumer recycled polyolefins is one of the
challenges to address for their further use in new packaging systems. In this work, sheets …

In Part 1 of this work, the possibility of improving single‐screw extruders (SSE) better
dispersive mixer was explored by harnessing extensional flows provided by the hyperbolic …

The deterioration of the physical–mechanical properties and loss of the chemical safety of
plastics after consumption are topics of concern for food packaging applications …

Polyethylene terephthalate from bottle waste (RPET) was compounded with an organically
modified nanoclay at increasing concentrations by extrusion to improve its physical …

Silanization and esterification are strategies used to treat wood flour (WF) to produce surface
functionalized hydrophobic WF leading to an improvement in dispersion and compatibility …

Asymmetric mesoporous composite PTFE membranes wit 40, 50, and 85 wt.% of a clay
(kaolin) were fabricated and characterized using a scanning electron microscope equipped …

Several strategies have been developed in the past two decades to increase the mechanical
performance of the hydrogels, and to generate self‐healing function within the polymer …

The article presents data on the task of recycling polyester polymers based on recycled
polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which accumulate in the form of …