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Plastic is an essential material in the modern world, but it's also environmentally costly to produce and a major pollutant. A material called pyridinedicarboxylic acid, or PDCA, could help address at ...

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The earliest useful plastics were made out of natural materials like cellulose and casein, but since the Bakelite revolution, ...