Scientists often seek new materials derived from polymers. Rather than starting a polymer search from scratch, they save time ...

Building bricks from waste materials Polymer blocks pave way to more sustainable construction Date: August 1, 2022 Source: Flinders University Summary: Firing bricks and making mortar and cement ...

One of the most important frontiers in materials chemistry is the architectural control of synthetic materials on the nanometer-scale. Nanometer-scale architecture is primarily responsible for the ...

These building blocks can be joined together in different ways to create materials with different properties. One architecture often used for these polymers is a star polymer network.

To create the thermally responsive building materials, the group drew inspiration from several of these endeavors — using a ...

The new material is a two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, MIT says, “unlike all other polymers, which form one-dimensional, spaghetti-like chains. Until now, scientists had ...

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Image Credit: Kriengsak tarasri/Shutterstock.com An innovative polymerization process developed by Polymer Mimetics, a UK specialty chemical manufacturer, enables high-performance polymer ...

The materials, which behave like glasses, have been explored as recyclable plastics by other chemists. To convert the PDKs back to their monomer building blocks, the group uses 5 M sulfuric acid.

Chemists in Anastasaki’s lab achieve the polymethacrylate unzipping by making a dilute solution of the polymer in dioxane and heating it to 120 °C (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, DOI: 10.1021/jacs ...