Over time, plasticizers leach from the #plastics, which allows the material to deteriorate into potentially hazardous organics and #microplastics. Now, a team led by Christo Sevov, the principal investigator of the study and an associate professor in chemistry and biochemistry at The Ohio State University, has found that using electricity to permanently affix those chemical additives can prevent such unwanted reactions.
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