Analysis and identification of polymers is essential to confirm not only the identity of an unknown polymer to verify that the proper material has been received prior to processing. Non-destructive ...

Albuquerque, N.M. — For the past three years a Sandia research team headed by Mat Celina has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultra ...

The words on this page mean something because they are assembled in a particular order and follow the complex rules of grammar and syntax. Creating new chemical polymers follows a similar kind of ...

A team at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg (HI ERN), an institute of the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZ Jülich) in Germany, has developed a portable, miniaturized spectroscopy solution to ...

Nylon fishing lines and nets are particularly durable plastics, with lifespans extending into the hundreds of years, causing significant issues to marine life. 2 To tackle the issue, organisations ...

Polymers tend to be mutually immiscible. This makes it difficult to clearly identify the types of polymers in a mixture. A polyethylene terephthalate (PET) can be easily mistaken as polycarbonate (PC) ...

For the past three years a Sandia research team has been investigating the performance of piezoelectric polymer films that might one day become ultra-light mirrors in space telescopes. In 2007, an ...

The 19th-century science fiction novel Frankenstein explores the idea of combining artificial materials with human body ...

When chemists think about polymerization, they typically envision a wormlike polymer growing smoothly and continuously from a catalyst. But the actual view of how polymer growth unfolds has remained ...