The story of Plexiglas begins in the early 1930s, during a period of intense innovation in synthetic materials. German chemist Otto Röhm was perfecting his own version of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA ...

Researchers at Swiss university have developed a solvent-based process to recycle the plastic resin commonly known as Plexiglas. “Our process is extremely simple,” says ETH Zürich researcher Athina ...

A transparent thermoplastic, Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) is a possible lightweight, shatter-resistent substitute for glass. Often referred to as acrylic glass, PMMA is a synthetic polymer of the ...

A surprising number of scientific discoveries were made accidentally — some famous examples are Velcro, vulcanized rubber, and PTFE, better known under the Teflon brand name. Thanks to researchers at ...

PMMA, polymethyl-methacrylate, is a thermoplastic acrylic linear polymer, the mer of which is illustrated in the diagram. PMMA is transparent, with a refractive index of 1.49, and easily formed into ...