Two University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to develop new plastic ...

Polymer materials have become increasingly important across various industrial applications due to their distinctive physical and chemical properties. Among these, Young's modulus is a key mechanical ...

Superior cost-to-performance ratio, resilience, and versatility are the core reasons behind the success of polymers in every major field. However, their inherent properties need to be modified as per ...

Polymers are materials composed of repeated chains of molecules. Both natural and synthetic polymers possess many important properties that are influenced by the conformation and composition of ...

List of Contributors. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Plastics, Polymers and Rubbers by Vibrational Spectroscopy (John M. Chalmers and Neil J. Everall). Spectra Structure Correlations: ...

Blending, grafting, curing, and functionalization are all techniques to modify the characteristics of a polymer. Blending is the process of physically mixing two (or more) polymers to obtain the ...

When designing polymers to achieve desired characteristics, such as toughness, elasticity, and resilience, you must not only consider the type of polymer, but also the mechanics of its macromolecular ...

Monomers, the building blocks of complex molecules, are the links to the chain. What Sing's group theorized is that by knowing the sequence of polymers and monomers and the charge (positive, negative ...

Investigating FKM's stability under pressure reveals critical insights into thermal and oxidative degradation, essential for ...

The field of polymer science has seen a transformative evolution with the development of self-healing biodegradable materials ...