Chemists Create Faster-Degrading Plastic For Marine Uses

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Apr 17, 2020, 10:25 am157 pts
To address the plastic environmental crisis, Cornell chemists have developed a new polymer with ample strength in a marine setting that is poised to degrade by ultraviolet radiation, according to research published March 30 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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