ETH researchers have created an incredibly lightweight 18-carat gold, using a matrix of plastic in…
Browsing: Polymers
Polymers are large molecules composed of repeating subunits called monomers, and they form the basis of countless materials in both nature and industry. Found in everything from DNA and proteins to plastics and synthetic fibers, polymers are incredibly diverse in structure and function. Scientists study and engineer polymers to create materials with specific properties, flexibility, strength, conductivity, biodegradability, suiting them for applications in medicine, electronics, construction, and more. Research in polymer science continues to expand with developments in sustainable materials, smart polymers that respond to environmental stimuli, and innovations in nanotechnology.
Lithium-ion batteries are notorious for developing internal electrical shorts that can ignite a battery’s liquid…
Sustainable Adhesives of the Future Won’t Stick Around Plastics of the future should, ideally for…
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth develop unique multifibrillar fibers. Strong and tough yet as…
Chemists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a method that could turn…
Creating switchable plasmons in plastics: Conductive polymer nanoantennas for dynamic organic plasmonics. Researchers in the…
Cross-Linking Technology Tightly Binds Where Commercial Glues Cannot With many of the products we use…
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have created a suite of new biological sensors by chemically…
Researchers trained material the same way as Pavlov trained dogs. Conditioning is a method made…
Reversible electronic solid-gel switching of a conjugated polymer. Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics…
Skoltech researchers in collaboration with scientists from the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of…
Discarded PET bottles could find a new life in the chemical industry. In a world…
Using waste heat helps cut cost of producing hydrogen. Hydrogen as an energy carrier can…
New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say. MIT…
Building materials that clean themselves could save immense time and labor in homes and businesses,…
Synthetic biologists working on a U.S. Army project have developed a process that could lead…
Theoretical tubulanes inspire ultrahard polymers: Rice University-printed sample is full of holes, but stops bullets…
New strategy for encapsulating nutrients makes it easier to fortify foods with iron and vitamin…