Polymers Audio Articles

           SuperPlants! This is what the researchers of this article have created. They have developed a way to increase the photosynthetic efficiency of a plant by adding a polymer resulting in a better yield. Take a listen. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Science Advances on 26 th august 2020 Xin Zhou, Yue Zeng, Yongyan Tang, Yiming Huang, Fengting Lv, Libing Liu and Shu Wang DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc5237

          I n this article, the authors try to answer the question of where is the missing plastic in the ocean . Studies so far show that the majority of this plastic is in the sea bottom, but here they add another place where the wastes of our throw-away society end: the seagrass . Take a listen to this interesting explanation and the importance of the seaweed in the oceanic ecosystems. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Scientific Reports on 14 th January 2021 Anna Sanchez‑Vidal, Miquel Canals, William P. de Haan, Javier Romero & Marta Veny DO I: https://doi.org/10.1038/S41598-020-79370-3

A Comparison with Conventional Biodegradable Mulch Film  Developing a new series of biodegradable materials coming from renewable sources has become a key field in the fight against global pollution. Biofilms obtained from seaweed lead the group of plastic-like materials to be used in packaging; this article presents a new proposal of material and an accurate explanation of typical characterization process of the plastic and the comparison with a current available biopolymer .  Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Polymers on 26 th January 2019 Hasan M., E.W.N. Chong, Shima Jafarzadeh, M.T. Paridah, Deepu A. Gopakumar, H.A. Tajarudin, Sabu Thomas and H.P.S. Abdul Khalil DOI: 10.3390/polym11020210   

With this series of episodes, we jumped into the field of Reviews with a topic which has been increasing its relevance during the last years: Seaweed . Side by side, we realised that sometimes a single scientific publication was too much for a single podcast of Science Audio Articles. In the past, we split some of them sharing the methods section separately from the rest of the episode, but the next logical step was to face long reviews also. To make it easier for everyone, listeners and creators, we decided to share this one in three parts, but we feel this dynamic is here to stay.  On the other hand, this is the very first article we started working with. In these old times, we just started doing our work with the hearth and maybe we took a too huge paper for that, so unfortunately, this episode never came out of the drawer, until now. We have taken off the dirt and we have done this work again from the heart and with the head also. The only unanswered question we have is why did...

Scientific Reports. Nature Research Lauren Biermann, Daniel Clewley, Victor Martinez-Vicente & Konstantinos Topouzelis Published: 23 rd April 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62298-z Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more Methods Methods