Tag: polymer
Liquid Crystal Polymer Grades Feature Improved Blister Resistance
Liquid Crystal Polymer Grades Feature Improved Blister Resistance: New grades of liquid crystal polymer (LCP) that offer improved blister resistance for electronic connectors have...
When Crystals Flow: Polymer’s Melting Point
When Crystals Flow: Polymer's Melting Point: Semicrystalline polymers are solids that are assumed to flow only above their melting temperature. In a new study...
MIT Polymer Modular System to Produce Efficient and Scalable Aquabots
The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped.
MIT Polymer Modular System to Produce Efficient and Scalable Aquabots:...
Huge Step Towards Strong and Durable Biobased Plastics
Overcoming the low reactivity of biobased secondary diols in polyester synthesis
Huge Step Towards Strong and Durable Biobased Plastics: In a recent paper in Nature...
New Method for Bonding Polymers to Steel
New Method for Bonding Polymers to Steel: The manufacturing industry is constantly on the lookout for more efficient manufacturing materials, but most new methods...
Process Converts Polyethylene Bags, Plastics to Polymer
by University of California - Berkeley
Process Converts Polyethylene Bags, Plastics to Polymer: Polyethylene plastics—in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape—are notoriously hard...
Bare Polymers Allows the Creation of Unique Hybrid Materials
Bare Polymers Allows the Creation of Unique Hybrid Materials: Bare aromatic polymers have the potential to be used in a wide range of high-performance...
Polymer Microlattice Benefits from Some Slow Heating
Polymer Microlattice Benefits from Some Slow Heating: Developing a lightweight material that is both strong and highly ductile has been regarded as a long-desired...
Tokyo Creates Inexpensive Catalyst Efficient Carbon Dioxide Reduction
A novel coordination polymer-based photocatalyst for CO2 reduction exhibits unprecedented performance, giving scientists at Tokyo Tech hope in the fight against global warming. Made from...
Plastic that is Degradable and Highly Recyclable
by University of Turku
Plastic that is Degradable and Highly Recyclable: A research group headed by senior researcher Jianwei Li at the MediCity Research Laboratory has...
