Researchers have discovered a method that enables the near-complete breakdown of Plexiglas into its monomer building blocks.

Polymer chemists at ETH Zurich have discovered a surprising way to virtually fully break down PMMA plastic - commonly known ...

Polymer chemists at ETH Zurich have discovered a surprising way to virtually fully break down PMMA plastic – commonly known as Plexiglas – into its monomer building blocks. The process remains ...

Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

One of the most outstanding features of the 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six Plexiglas was its construction using Plexiglas material, a type of acrylic sheet, which is a plastic engineered to replace ...

The ETH Zurich study reveals an efficient method for breaking down Plexiglas, potentially transforming plastic recycling and ...

Dubbed the “most distinctive car under the sun” upon its debut in 1954, the Skyliner was in production for three years with a ...

Researchers at Swiss university have developed a solvent-based process to recycle the plastic resin commonly known as ...

Although it technically is possible to recycle Plexiglass, it's a complex and inefficient process, so it generally just isn't ...

ETH Zurich materials researchers have developed a groundbreaking method that enables the near-complete recycling of acrylic glass for the first time. The polymer chains are broken down into their ...