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Plastics

Igus celebrates 60th anniversary with plastic bike odyssey

WVU researcher Yuxin Wang loads polypropylene into a microwave reactor

Microwave tech targets polypropylene waste

The new epoxy resin is flame retardant due to its phosphorus content, as seen on this burn test of an untreated MDF sample (left) compared to a sample coated in the new polymer

New epoxy resin is recyclable and flame retardant

Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Damien Guironnet and graduate students Vanessa DaSilva and Nicholas Wang demonstrated a new scalable process that can upcycle plastics.

Upcycling plastics to cut greenhouse gas emissions