A groundbreaking 1970s experiment by Alan MacDiarmid and his team revealed that plastic, long considered an insulator, could ...
We are pleased to announce the winners of Rising Stars in Polymer Science 2023 as young influential. Polymer Journal has been enriched by the complex of wonderfully talented and diverse groups of ...
The structure of semi-crystalline polymers largely depends on how strongly their molecular chains are entangled. Following numerous experiments, researchers developed a new model to predict the ...
A University of Virginia-led study about a class of materials called associative polymers appears to challenge a long-held understanding of how the materials, which have unique self-healing and flow ...
Digital technologies are redefining polymer research and instead of blindly sampling vast chemical space, generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) now enables data-driven molecular design. Join two ...
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A strange-looking experiment in 1965 led to Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests
In the mid-1960s, inside a research laboratory run by DuPont, Stephanie Kwolek was searching for something fairly practical. The company wanted lightweight yet durable fibres that could eventually ...
A chemist named Waldo Semon sought rubber but found a stubborn polymer. His accidental discovery led to flexible PVC. This ...
Everyday items like car tires, plastic bags and foam cushions come from materials called polymers that can take years to develop and test. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University ...
Albuquerque, N.M. — For the past three years a Sandia research team headed by Mat Celina has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultra ...
The Polymer Science doctoral program is designed to provide students with a background in advanced course work and laboratory techniques that will prepare them to carry out an original investigation ...
Most glues don’t work at super low temperatures, since they become rigid and brittle when frozen. So these chemists made a polymer that stays flexible, even in liquid nitrogen, allowing it to bond to ...
Whether natural or synthetic, polymers — large molecules made up of repeating units called monomers — exhibit complex structures and properties that make them useful in a wide range of applications.
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