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 polymer known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Craig Menzemer is the new dean of the College of Engineering and Polymer Science at the University of Akron. The University of ...

(Nanowerk News) By adding semiconducting nanoparticles to polymers, the Materials + Technologies Research Group (GMT) of the Polytechnical College of San Sebastian of the UPV/EHU-University of the ...

For a polymer composed of very simple repeating units, polyethylenimine (PEI) has an astounding number of practical applications, including detergents, adhesives, cosmetics, industrial agents, CO 2 ...

image: (From left) Postdoctoral research associate Diego Alzate Sanchez, Beckman Institute director Jeffrey Moore, associate professor of mechanical science and engineering Mariana Kersh, and UIUC ...

Vascular systems found in trees transport vital nutrients from root, to branch, to leaf. In a new study, researchers have developed a chemical process to mimic this arboreal architecture in foamed ...