Polyesters occur naturally as biological polymers, but can also be made artificially. Man-made polymers are often used in clothing. Polyesters are an example of a condensation polymer. A simple ...

The first man-made plastic was made in 1862 using cellulose ... For Toshifumi Satoh and his team at Hokkaido University’s Polymer Chemistry Lab, tackling plastic pollution by finding all ...

Creating battery electrolytes—the component that carries the charged particles back and forth between a battery's two ...

‘Thermo’ indicates that heat will be involved in the way the polymer is shaped, and ‘set’ means that once the polymer has been set in that shape, heat will not alter the form ...

It will certainly still take many years of development before synthetic sequence-ordered polymers as complex as myoglobin can be made. Nevertheless, the strategy developed by Thomas and colleagues ...