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Simple Pretreatment Step Enhances Performance of Polymer Membranes

A simple pretreatment step enables membranes to be enhanced using atomic layer deposition, a technique that can improve performance and introduce new surface properties.

29 Apr 2020

New Technology may Enable Simple Printers to Produce High-Quality Parts

The Army has a new type of multi-polymer filament for commonly-used desktop 3-D printers. This advance may save money and facilitate fast printing of critical parts at the point of need.

23 Apr 2020

New Method Uses Hot Water for the Production of Plastics

Many materials that we use every day are not sustainable. Some are harmful to plants or animals, others contain rare elements that will not always be as readily available as they are today. A great hope for the future is to achieve different material properties by using novel organic molecules.

22 Apr 2020

Cryogenic VICTREX CT Polymer Selected by Advanced Engineering Valves after Meeting Shell MESC Specifications

Belgium-based Advanced Engineering Valves , an Emerson company and industry leader for cryogenic and severe service ball valves, has selected a Victrex high performance cryogenic PEEK polymer to help its customers operate applications more efficiently and safely.

From Advanced Engineering Valves 22 Apr 2020

Cornell Chemists Develop a Photodegradable Polymer to Address Plastic Pollution

To address plastic pollution plaguing the world's seas and waterways, Cornell University chemists have developed a new polymer that can degrade by ultraviolet radiation, according to research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

21 Apr 2020

New "Intelligent Microsystem" for Faster, More Sustainable Industrial Chemistry

The synthesis of plastic precursors, such as polymers, involves specialized catalysts. However, the traditional batch-based method of finding and screening the right ones for a given result consumes liters of solvent, generates large quantities of chemical waste, and is an expensive, time-consuming process involving multiple trials.

15 Apr 2020

Army Researchers Explore New Structural Materials for Unmanned Vehicles

Materials used for a Soldier's personal protection gear may be tough enough for vehicles too, according to a new Army study.

14 Apr 2020

New Supramolecular Copolymers Driven by Self-Sorting of Molecules

Chiba University. Researchers in Japan have succeeded in creating a new type of helicoidal supramolecular polymer. The process and mechanism of the generation of its structure were observed using atomic force microscopy (AFM); the helicoidal structure grew spontaneously after two different monomers were mixed. The findings of the study, which was published in Nature Communications on April 1st, 2020 may lead to the design of original soft materials.

3 Apr 2020