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Chemistry

The Chemistry of Polymer Degradation by Photooxidation and Stabilizer Strategies

Quick fact

UV light from the sun provides enough energy to break carbon-carbon bonds in many polymers, initiating a chain reaction that can degrade materials even at low temperatures.

Why this is interesting

You leave a plastic chair in the garden, and after a few sunny summers it becomes chalky and brittle. What is happening at the molecular level?