Researchers have developed a molecule that, when added to a polymer, increases the material’s durability by making it more like metal in terms of its ability to withstand temperature fluctuations.

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These chains are compounded from a variety of small molecules which can modify the mechanical behavior of the polymer and skew its molecular weight. This makes it almost impossible to establish a ...

Due to the sheer diversity of polymeric structures at the molecular level, this can be a challenging subject to unravel. It is almost impossible to achieve consistent molecular weights within polymer ...

Polymers could one day signal they’re about to break by changing color, thanks to a new, fast-acting mechanophore based on oxazine. Mechanophores are molecules that can be inserted into polymers and ...

Plastics are among the most successful materials of modern times. However, they also create a huge waste problem. Scientists produced different polymers from lipoic acid, a natural molecule. These ...

What if a complex material could reshape itself in response to a simple chemical signal? A team of physicists from the University of Vienna and the University of Edinburgh has shown that even small ...

Conducting polymers have emerged as a pivotal class of materials for advanced optoelectronic applications owing to their tunable molecular structure, ...

(a) An insoluble crystalline polymorphic state inhibits supramolecular polymerization at high concentrations. (b) Mixing the coformer molecule with the parent monomer in the solidification process ...

Nylon, rubber, silicone, Teflon, PVC - these are all examples of man-made polymers - long chains of repeated molecular units that we call monomers. While polymers also exist in nature (think wool, ...