Silicone polymers, distinguished by their flexible siloxane (Si–O–Si) backbones, have attracted significant research attention due to their unique thermal, mechanical and chemical properties. Advances ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have synthesized a helical, magnetically active conductive polymer with exceptionally high optical activity using cyclosporine A as a helix-inducing agent. This ...

The rapid global transition toward sustainable and renewable energy systems is driving an urgent need for advanced materials that combine high efficiency, ...

Synthetic polymers are used to make electronics and other technological tools, so there is a demand for research into streamlining the synthesis of polymeric materials, which Collier said can require ...

Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of biomedical fields, such as drug delivery, disease detection/diagnosis, biosensing, regenerative medicine, and ...

Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerizations have emerged as a powerful and cost-effective approach for fabricating ultrathin polymer films with diverse functionalities. During this free ...

Effect of molecular weight toward tensile properties in the present biobased polyesters, HP1. The plots of PE-18,18 (polyester-18,18, reported biobased), and ...

A research team at Georgia Tech has built what it calls the first generative AI system purpose-built for polymer design, and ...

Professor Craig J. Hawker is Clarke Professor and holds the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair of Interdisciplinary Science at UCSB where he directs the California Nanosystems Institute and the Dow Materials ...

Microporous organic polymers (MOPs) are composed entirely of covalently linked organic molecules. These materials are characterized by their high surface areas, permanent microporosity, and structural ...

Rebecca Trager meets an organic chemist catalysing the search for BPA replacements by connecting synthetic chemists, data ...