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Learn how SCT Chemicals and Juri Sudheimer are revolutionising the friction modifier industry with innovative tribological methods.

A new chemical recycling method could finally offer a sustainable solution to one of the toughest plastics ever made. Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Newcastle University have ...

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The design and functions of liquid-crystalline (LC) polymers with classifying them into conventional-, supramolecular-, dendritic- and network-type LC polymers are described. LC polymers show new ...