For more than a century companies had been trying to develop plastics from lactic acid -- with no success. Enter Pat Gruber. Fresh out of graduate school, Gruber joined commodity grain processor ...

Once plastic products are used and discarded, they can linger in oceans, collecting in large "garbage patches" and harming sea life. One potential solution, a biodegradable polymer called polylactide ...

RUDN University biologist studied the aggressive impact of environmental factors (water, salts, and ozone) on ultrathin nanofibers of biopolymers. The results will help choosing suitable bioplastic ...

New Rochelle, NY, July 6, 2015--NatureWorks has updated the ecoprofile data--a life cycle assessment of energy, water, and other resource used together with air and water emissions and solid ...

Interv Cardiol. 2010;2(3):341-350. Thus far, the most comprehensive clinical trial data from commercially available bioabsorbable polymer DES, relate to the stents of the BioMatrix™ family (Biosensors ...

A novolimus-eluting stent (NES) with a biodegradable polymer has demonstrated 6-month angiographic superiority over a zotarolimus-eluting stent (ZES) and comparable long-term safety. Three-year ...