Natural polymers, such as gelatin, cellulose, alginate, chitin, starch, rubber, and fibrin, are used to develop green nanocomposites. Their use also expands to ...

Vinyl polymers have been the focus of intensive research over the past few decades and are attractive materials owing to their ease of synthesis and their broad diversity of architectures, ...

For the first time, scientists have used ultraviolet (UV) light, a low-cost and readily available energy source, to ...

Polymer chemistry continues to be a dynamic field that underpins advances in materials science, enabling the design of macromolecules with tailored physical, chemical and functional properties. Recent ...

Anyone who has ever had to get a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan knows that magnetic and highly conductive materials ...

Polymer brushes are made up of continuous monomers that are attached to an interface by one chain link at a sufficiently high density for the polymers to extend outward from the substrate. These ...

For decades, traditional materials like rubber and PVC dominated the landscape of flexible materials. However, their limitations, such as complex processing, higher costs, and environmental concerns, ...

Over the past few decades, food packaging markets have captured the attention of researchers due to their direct impact on human health. Both metallic and nonmetallic materials find use in the food ...

Conjugated polymer nanoparticles (CPN) have gathered interest recently because of their ability to exhibit a high fluorescence. As such they have become an interesting material for fluorescent probes ...

Polymer developed by Toray withstands temperatures exceeding 200°C, possibly a world first for vibration monitoring in ...