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For the first time, scientists have used ultraviolet (UV) light, a low-cost and readily available energy source, to successfully synthesize more sustainable and recyclable polymer materials. Led by ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic end up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials scientists ...

As electronics demand higher energy density, one component has proved challenging to shrink: the capacitor. Making a smaller ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have found a way to synthesize polyesters from leftover cooking oil, including a powerful adhesive. The fatty acids in cooking oil are ...

At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate chip cookie—golden-brown, thick and chewy. Unfortunately, you don't know who made ...

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 ...

People usually try to avoid having jets collide in midair. But Claas W. Visser and his colleagues at the University of Twente have found that colliding jets of liquid with differing surface tensions ...

Researchers have developed new polymer materials that are ideal for making the optical links necessary to connect chip-based photonic components with board-level circuits or optical fibers. These ...