The massive consumption of a wide range plastic products has generated a huge amount of
plastic waste. There is a need to provide awareness of their uses and routine management …

The paper is transdisciplinary. The complex overview on changes in policy and approach to
waste tyres that leads to both solving environmental problem of post-consumer tyres and …

In this study, polypropylene (PP), a versatile commodity thermoplastic, and cyclic olefin
copolymer (COC), an amorphous engineering thermoplastic, were blended over full …

The disposal of worn tyres and their economic recycling mean a great challenge nowadays.
Material recycling is the preferred way supported by legislative actions and …

We present results of a step by step comparison of the mechanical performance of injection
moulded 'long'(LF-PP) and 'short'(SF-PP) glass fibre-polypropylene compounds. The study …

Nanotechnology, science, and engineering spearhead the 21st century revolution that is
leading to fundamental breakthroughs in the way materials, devices, and systems are …

Antibacterial activity has become a significant property of textiles used in applications such
as medicine, clothing, and household products. In this study, we compounded …

The polypropylene/silver nanocomposite fibers were prepared for the attainment of
permanent antibacterial activity to common synthetic textile. The fibers were melt-spun by co …

This work estimates that if the growth of polymer production continues at its current rate of
5% each year, the current annual production of 395 million tons of plastic will exceed 1000 …

During the 1920's Hermann Staudinger, who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1953,
introduced his revolutionary concept of high molecular weight macromolecules and …