Polyethylene (PE) is a semicrystalline polymer that is one of the most extensively manufactured polymers in the world for consumer products and packaging. Shopping bags, milk bottles, storage ...

New York, Jan. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to the market.us, the Polyethylene market size is expected to reach around USD 181.1 billion by 2033, showing a significant increase from USD ...

Today’s plastic grocery bag could be tomorrow’s high-tech track suit, thanks to fabric made from polyethylene—the same polymer that is used to make plastic wrap. Analyses suggest that the fabric could ...

Polyethylene (PE) is widely used in different fields and for various industrial and domestic purposes. Analysis of polyethylene materials is vital to ensure the presence and suitability of these ...

Polyethylene is the most widespread and pervasive synthetic polymer used throughout the world, accounting for over a third of the global annual plastic manufacturing output. In recent years, plastic ...

Researchers develop a one-pot, low temperature catalytic method to turn polyethylene polymers into alkylaromatic molecules. When we started using plastics about 70 years ago, not much thought -- if ...

Polyethylene is the most abundantly manufactured plastic in the world. Due to properties like durability, it has many diverse, and even long-term uses. Chemists have now incorporated polar groups in ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...