A filament of nylon may have a million or more molecules ... Carothers did not see the widespread application of his work -- in consumer goods such as toothbrushes, fishing lines, and lingerie ...

Nylon is a common plastic, but it is difficult to recycle. A genetically modified bacterium is supposed to make it possible.

Materials firm Invista has been granted a patent for a nylon 6/6 recycling process aimed at increasing high-quality ...

The company has been granted a patent for a nylon recycling process and has applied for another that enables the use of ...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences–Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich worked together ...

A group of researchers from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences – Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich, in collaboration with the company Novonesis, has successfully engineered a bacterium ...