From these collective studies, we found that in general, the use of higher salt dopant content in the liquid electrolyte solutions afforded higher bulk ion conductivities in the resulting composites, ...

Scientists have developed the first cells that can construct artificial polymers from building blocks that are not found in nature, by following instructions the researchers encoded in their genes.

Dutch researchers have discovered a way of creating polymers in liquid carbon dioxide using ultrasound. Martijn Kuijpers and colleagues at the Eindhoven University of Technology used high intensity ...

A research team has developed a faster and easier way to make a class of sulfur-containing plastics that will lower the cost of large-scale production. A team of researchers has developed a faster and ...

Scientists have come up with a new technique to evaluate the mechanical forces generated in polymer crystallization as they cool down from their molten state. They used small, fluorescent molecules to ...

Even though many plastics are recyclable, most are not recycled because of the cost and labor needed. To help make plastic recycling easier, chemists want to find new polymers that require less work ...

Some members of the Organic 2D-Materials Group at the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, TU Dresden. Courtesy: TU Dresden A new technique dubbed surfactant-monolayer-assisted interfacial ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. Working with a type of ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic end up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials scientists ...

Graded electrical junctions created by molecular scale engineering enable record levels of blue light emitting efficiency from polymer to be achieved. Light emitting polymers are an attractive ...

We can sense the pressure from a tap on the shoulder or a pat on the back because we have mechanoreceptors that undergo conformational changes when we experience touch. They allow us to register and ...