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Vitamins for plastics?

12/06/2006

Vitamins for plastics?

Want to hear how vitamin C can improve the health of plastics? Check out this AAAS podcast with Jim Spanswick, co-director of the Center for Macromolecular Engineering in the Mellon College of Science, in which he discusses the use of vitamin C and other agents to reduce the amount of copper needed to make innovative plastics. 


Lauren Ward