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POLYDEF also finds use in innovative products In summary, technologies like POLYDEF address
like 3D printing filaments and self-leveling epoxy bactericidal resistance by offering innovative so-
floor resins. It’s adaptability extends to flexible, lutions. They help maintain pathogen-free sur-
rigid, and viscoelastic polyurethanes. These faces across industrial and everyday settings.
broad applications and bactericidal properties
Source – Plastics Engineering
make it a preferred choice for industries prior-
itizing hygiene and material performance.
Upcycling Microplastics into Graphene
due to its non-biodegradable nature. Despite
Researchers at James Cook Uni- the growing need for plastic waste manage-
versity have developed a ground- ment, traditional recycling methods remain inef-
breaking method to convert micro- ficient and costly. Researchers at James Cook
plastics into graphene. University have developed a novel technique
called Atmospheric Pressure Microwave Plasma
(APMP) that offers a breakthrough solution by
icroplastic pollution is an escalating en-
upcycling microplastics into graphene, turning
vironmental threat, contaminating eco-
environmental waste into valuable materials.
Msystems and entering the food chain
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