In Plastics' Day in Surgery, Red Herring reports that an international team of U.S. and German researchers has developed a new kind of plastic that can shift between three different shapes when ...

The material, from Zhejiang University, China, is a shape memory polymer, built up from a large number of similar units bonded together, such as plastic, that revert to previous shapes.

We already have materials that react to heat, light and electric charges and change shape. What’s different about the latest plastic is its tunability and reusability.

In an international study, plastic surgeons from different countries had varying preferences for the ideal size and shape of breasts and size of areolas.

Glowing plastic lets you make light bulbs in any shape Researchers have made a new glowing plastic material that they've formed into lights of different shapes.