Chemistry Basics: Production of Materials

From SpecialChem - Omnexus.

"The Material Data Center offers the plastics industry's best quality data on materials and their applications."

From How Stuff Works.

The Centre for Polymer Colloids at the University of NSW has established this website for senior high school students (particularly HSC). Topics include addition polymerisation, condensation polymerisation, ethanol from plants, replacing natural products, equilibria and process control and soaps and detergents.
Last updated 2004.

From How Stuff Works.

"The Treeson is a new brand of bottled water made from plant-based plastic that can be later burned for energy. But is it just greenwashing?"

The UK's National Centre for Biorenewable Energy, Fuels and Materials.

From Online HSC Resources, Key Centre for Polymer Colloids, The University of Sydney.

From How Stuff Works.

"In our daily lives, we rely on many metals that are either uncommon, environmentally damaging, or located almost solely in places like China, Bolivia, or the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (i.e., not nations the U.S. is always on good terms with). What's the risk that one day we won't be able to depend on any of these elements?
That's the question asked by researchers from Yale University, who have now catalogued how much we’re in danger of putting all our eggs in one basket. By Jessica Leber, April, 2015