Researchers at Koç University have developed a light-driven method to produce porous semiconducting polymers under ambient ...

Modern polymer materials face a fundamental challenge: they must remain strong and durable during use, yet ideally degrade ...

Polymer chemistry is transforming industries, from sustainable materials to biomedicine. Over his decades as a professor of materials, chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, Craig Hawker’s ...

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

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 ...

The 19th-century science fiction novel Frankenstein explores the idea of combining artificial materials with human body ...

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a transformative tool in polymer science, enabling researchers to predict material properties and guide polymer design with unprecedented speed and precision.

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WASHINGTON, D. C. - The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Akron $660,421 to fund a program that examines semicrystalline polymers, a type of plastic used in everything from ...

The application of field-theoretic simulations (FTS) in polymer science has emerged as a powerful approach to unravel the complex interplay of fluctuations and interactions in macromolecular systems.

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Researchers have developed an adhesive polymer that is stronger than current commercially available options while also being biodegradable, tunable, and reusable. The findings show how the common, ...