Engineered polymers hold promise for use in next generation technologies such as light-harvesting devices and implantable electronics that interact with the nervous system—but creating polymers with ...

Chemists discovered a new way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. Working with polyacrylate elastomers, they could increase the materials' resistance to tearing ...

Plastic production has increased at an incredible rate since its introduction in the 1950s, with over 380 million tons of polymer resin and fiber produced globally, with numbers still rising. This is ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have uncovered a path to design superionic polymer ...

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 ...