<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2023/prestigious-grant-could-spark-incredible-chemistry.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate/><title>Prestigious Grant Could Spark Incredible Chemistry</title><description>Inexpensive, versatile, pliable, shapeable, and with useful applications in every sector of manufacturing, plastics — synthetic polymers — were a scientific breakthrough that has improved lives since they went into mass production after World War II.</description><hide-description/><author/><author-details/><hide-author/><date/><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/engineering/news/2022/hao-sun-group-1.jpg" alt="second from left: Assistant Professor Hao Sun"/></image><image-caption>Second from left: Assistant Professor Hao Sun.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2023</tag></tags></item>