Hannah J. Sayre is in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. Harsh Bhatia is in the ...

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have earned the nickname of forever chemicals from their extraordinary ability to stick around in the environment long after they’ve been used.

The distribution of outermost shell electrons, known as valence electrons, of organic molecules was experimentally observed for the first time by a team led by Nagoya University in Japan. As the ...

A newly evolved enzyme could one day make silicone compounds biodegradable. For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn human-made bonds between silicon and carbon ...

Figure 1 BNOSE, a high-performance, chemically recoverable elastomer design based on boron-nitrogen (B-N) coordination and boron-oxygen (B-O) dynamic bonding. Elastomers, or thermoplastics, are ...