Polymer particles have been chemically imprinted with DNA strands by McGill University researchers – a technique capable of leading to new materials for applications ranging from biomedicine to “soft robotics” (a promising field).
There are numerous technologies with potential under development that can decrease energy consumption or capture carbon in fields including biotech, nanotechnology, materials science, computer science, and more. Not all will prove viable, but with some funding and nurturing, many could help solve Earth’s grand challenge.
A team of researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst have discovered the first steps toward attaining control over the self-assembly of artificial materials in the same way that biology develops natural polymers.
Polymers are highly valued by industry and progressively used as substitutes for metals in the manufacture of automobile parts, firearms, and others. Such parts are marked with serial numbers, for traceability and security purposes.
The steel used for constructing a building can be protected from being buckled and failing during a fire by adding additional coats of “paint.”
Throwing polymer chains of various lengths into a mix can produce surprising results better than playing with Legos. In a new research published in EPJ E, physicists study how mixing chemically identical chains into a melt yields unique effects on their surface. This is due to how long and short polymer chains interact with each other.
A novel type of electronic component made from a blend of polymer materials could enable more effective circuitry.
Chemists at the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) have developed a metal-free method for collecting cationic polymerization capable of providing a new framework for superior quality industrial polymers applicable to bio-materials and semi-conductors.
GreenMantra Technologies, a swiftly growing clean technology company that manufactures high-value polymer products from waste plastics, and Sun Chemical, the largest producer of printing inks in the world, have struck a deal to jointly create polymers from recycled polystyrene waste for use in ink formulations.
Whenever molecules get closer to adhesive surfaces, they always move faster. However, this is not a permanent effect. Such was the perplexing conclusion reached by Simone Napolitano and his coworkers in the Laboratory of Polymers and Soft Matter Dynamics at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
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