Polymer dielectric breakdown mechanism resolved: physicists at Russia's Ioffe Institute confirmed quantum tunneling drives ...

The discovery of a mini aurora above a light-emitting polymer material reveals an electron-ejection process that might be useful in field-emission displays and material fabrication. Auroras occur in ...

Polymer physics investigates the molecular architecture and dynamic processes that govern the mechanical and flow properties of macromolecular materials. At its core, this field seeks to relate chain ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have applied ideas from polymer physics to illuminate the mechanism behind a key pathology in Alzheimer's disease, the formation of fibrils of tau ...

For more than half a century, materials scientists have struggled with how to simulate the complexity of polymer materials. An individual chain can comprise tens of thousands of atoms, a melt or ...

Liheng Cai’s breakthroughs rewrite the rules of polymer physics, opening possibilities for designing better materials in health care and sustainability The American Physical Society has awarded its ...

Turbulence, the chaotic, irregular motion that causes the bumpiness we sometimes experience on an airplane, has intrigued scientists for centuries. At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...

Yielding more gently. In a simulation, a polymer glass containing polymer nanoparticles (green blobs) is stressed until just before the moment of fracture. The particles rearrange themselves under ...

“Our group has a strategic vision on the interconnection between molecular design, engineering and materials science to design functional polymers,” Korley said about what makes her group unique. “We ...

The field of polymers is highly dynamic and interdisciplinary. Our PhD program in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst naturally reflects that perspective. We ...