New polymer design breaks the trade-off between strength and recyclability
Plastics underpin much of modern life: fields like medicine, technology and food safety would be unrecognizable without plastics and their ...
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Bioengineers develop new environmentally friendly adhesive polymer
A team of bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a new type of environmentally friendly adhesive polymer. ...
Polymer science team develops additive capable of “recycling” a wide range of plastics
There is no need to remember that plastic production and pollution have continued to increase over the years: the evidence ...
Scientists create method to bind hydrogels and other polymer materials using chitosan
Hydrogels are versatile biomaterials that are conquering an increasing number of biomedical fields. Made up of water-swollen molecular networks that ...
A novel high-concentration solid polymer electrolyte for high-voltage lithium-metal batteries
Lithium metal batteries, which contain lithium metal-based anodes, are promising rechargeable batteries that could help meet the growing demands of ...
New process enables complete recovery of raw materials from strong polymer composites
In a victory for chemistry, inventors at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed a closed-loop pathway ...
Molecularly designing polymer networks to control acoustic damping
The world is filled with a myriad of sounds and vibrations: the soft tones of a piano drifting down the ...
Integrating nanodiamonds into a polymer can advance quantum computing and biological studies
A nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is a defect in the crystal structure of diamond, where a nitrogen atom replaces a ...
