Researchers developed a plant based plastic that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater, leaving no ...

ANN ARBOR--A new process that can sprout microscopic spikes on nearly any type of particle may lead to more environmentally friendly paints and a variety of other innovations. Made by a team of ...

Nucleic-acid-based therapeutics, such as small interfering RNAs, are highly charged, making it difficult to encapsulate them inside a particle for delivery. Joseph DeSimone of the University of North ...

Plastic pollution is no longer just a story of bottles and bags drifting across the surface of the sea. As larger debris ...

A biodegradable polymer developed by MIT chemical engineers could find use in beauty products and cleansers—and could even help fortify foods with vitamins. The tiny beads added to some cleansers and ...

OctopusEffects, #aftereffects I shot a short video, then used Particular with the Physics of Fluids to make the cup dissolve into particles. Here is a detailed video on how to do it. Video without voi ...

Killing cancer cells isn’t particularly hard – the tricky part is doing so without harming healthy cells. Researchers at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) have developed nanoparticles that ...

There’s a lot of stuff you’d expect to find in baby formula: proteins, carbs, vitamins, essential minerals. But parents probably wouldn’t anticipate finding extremely small, needle-like particles. Yet ...

Researchers from Stanford University have made breakthroughs that could lead to injectable gels to release medications over time. The researchers say that injecting patients with a gel that dissolves ...

A new process that can sprout microscopic spikes on nearly any type of particle may lead to more environmentally friendly paints and a variety of other innovations. A new process that can sprout ...