Soft materials and polymers are ubiquitous in our lives and form the basis of many advances in medicine, sustainability, manufacturing, and clean water access. What makes these materials unique is ...

Relationships between polymer structure (chemical composition, molecular weight and flexibility, intermolecular order and bonding, supermolecular structure) and practical properties (processability, ...

A structure of the Pd-based initiators was devised, leading to success in improving their activity for C1 polymerization. For example, it is now possible to prepare high molecular weight polymers ...

This clip starts with a brief introduction into what polymers are and lists examples of both natural and synthetic polymers. It then goes on to describe what a smart polymer is, before focusing on ...

In the late nineteenth century, a German biochemist found the nucleic acids, long-chain polymers of nucleotides ... needed to figure out this molecule's structure to be sure, and to understand ...

The client is a leading European manufacturer of high-performance water-soluble polymers for industrial applications. These polymers, although presenting a similar molecular weight and molecular ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and the University of Fribourg have developed polymer water ...

Internal structure of polymer gels: A chemical gel is a cross-linked three-dimensional polymer network swollen by a fluid. An intriguing hierarchy structure which developed in a macroscopically ...