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

In a recent webinar organized by the National Academy of Engineering in connection with its forthcoming Fall ...

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

A research team led by Prof. Boseok Kang at Sungkyunkwan University has uncovered the origin of polarity inversion, a long-standing phenomenon in polymer semiconductors that occurs only in certain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Faced with a budget shortfall, the University of Akron (UA) is proposing to merge its department of chemistry; department of chemical, biomolecular, and corrosion engineering; and School of Polymer ...

A recent study in Nature Communications explores a novel approach to self-healing in polymer glasses—using controlled oscillatory movements to boost molecular mobility and repair cracks. This ...

These 'polymer alloy' composition changes have enabled the creation of materials with optimized toughness, processability, chemical resistance, and cost structures. Polymer blends and polymer alloys ...