Two years after courses in polymer chemistry began to be offered at Virginia Tech, Paul J. Flory received the 1974 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his achievement in the physical chemistry of ...

The Polymer Education Committee of the American Chemical Society offers annual awards for excellence to high school and junior high school science teachers who have introduced the study of polymer ...

Soon, the University of Akron will no longer have a College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering. It will become a school within a new college of engineering instead, according to the university ...

Dr. Phil Costanzo, a chemistry professor at Cal Poly, is the recipient of the James Flack Norris Award for outstanding teaching in chemistry by the American Chemical Society. A Cal Poly chemistry ...

With rapid advances in high-throughput computing, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, polymer informatics is emerging as a promising tool to ensure breakthrough ...

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The term smart polymer embraces a wide range of different compounds that can change their color, transparency or shape in response to their environment; they are smart because of their ability to ...