Recycling robot could help solve soft plastic waste crisis
Researchers create robot that sorts soft plasticCredit: University of Sydney Despite an improvement in plastic recycling in recent years, landfill ...
Tag: Polymer Chemistry
‘Flashed’ nanodiamonds are just a phase
Rice produces fluorinated nanodiamond, graphene, concentric carbon via flash Joule heatingCredit: Illustration by Weiyin Chen/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 21, ...
Solar energy collectors grown from seeds
Engineers create seeds for growing near-perfect 2D perovskite crystalsCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 21, 2021) - ...
Pioneering chemistry approach could lead to more robust soft electronics
Credit: Udit Chakraborty, Cornell University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- A new approach to studying conjugated polymers made it possible ...
UChicago scientists identify properties that allow proteins to strengthen under pressure
Credit: Scheff et al A new rubber band stretches, but then snaps back into its original shape and size. Stretched ...
Particles with ‘eyes’ allow a closer look at rotational dynamics
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Colloids--mixtures of particles made from one substance, dispersed ...
New material could remove respiratory droplets from air
'Every droplet effectively removed from indoor air would eliminate a potential source of transmission'Credit: Northwestern University Although plexiglass barriers are ...
New method makes generic polymers luminescent
Credit: Koji Kubota et al., Angewandte Chemie International Edition. May 14, 2021 Hokkaido University researchers have developed a simple method ...
‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics
Credit: Xampla Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products. The ...
Bacteria-sized robots take on microplastics and win by breaking them down
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04559 Small pieces of plastic are everywhere, stretching from urban ...
Engineers apply physics-informed machine learning to solar cell production
Lehigh University researchers use Frontera supercomputer to simulate photovoltaic fabrication, train AI to optimize energy productionCredit: Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
German researchers involved in seawater desalination project in the Persian Gulf
Researchers of Mainz University cooperate with partners in the Middle East to provide drinking water to settlements on the Persian ...
Absorbent aerogels show some muscle
Rice lab creates spongelike materials for environmental remediation and moreCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 8, 2021) - A ...
Online ‘library of properties’ helps to create safer nanomaterials
Credit: NanoSolveIT Researchers have developed a 'library of properties' to help identify the environmental impact of nanomaterials faster and more ...
Visualizing cement hydration on a molecular level
Imaging technique could enable new pathways for reducing concrete's hefty carbon footprint, as well as for 3-D printing of concrete.Credit: ...
Scientists make powerful underwater glue inspired by barnacles and mussels
Silk proteins formed fibers, crosslinks, and iron complexes similar to those used by the sea creaturesCredit: Marco Lo Presti, Tufts ...
Lighting Hydrogels Via Nanomaterials
Texas A&M associate professor Akhilesh Gaharwar and graduate student Patrick Lee are developing a new class of hydrogels that can ...
SwRI works to improve atmospheric water harvesting
Researchers seek to create more efficient, cost-effective methodCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- June 1, 2021 -- Engineers and ...
Proton’s travel route in polymers could lead the way to clean fuels
Researchers explore proton transport in thin film polymers containing various concentrations of an organic acid group found in biomaterialsCredit: Yuki ...
Peptide nanoparticles marked for in vitro visualization
A joint research by Kazan Federal University and Chinese Academy Sciences has been published in Chemical Engineering Journal.Credit: Chinese Academy ...