Scientists have created a novel thermoresponsive polymer by adding divalent cations to polymers and water solvents. They also succeeded in controlling thermoresponsive properties by changing the type ...

Raman microspectroscopy has emerged as an effective analytical method for investigating microplastics in environmental matrices. Its molecular-level analysis of plastic particles enables researchers ...

An international research team is attracting the attention of experts in the field with computational results on the behavior of ring polymers under shear forces: Reyhaneh Farimani, University of ...

Fish and other types of seafood not only provide people with nutrition but also with doses of tiny plastic particles, or microplastics. A new study reveals just how much and what types of ...

Kyushu University researchers have directly observed, for the first time, how individual polymers—chain-like molecules—behave when in contact with solid surfaces. Published in the Journal of the ...