Social media and science show how ship’s plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway
Credit: Tracey Williams, Lost at Sea Project A ship's container lost overboard in the North Atlantic has resulted in printer ...
Tag: Polymer Chemistry
How acidic are atoms?
The acidity of molecules can be easily determined, but until now it was not possible to measure this important property ...
HKUST develops a novel raman spectroscopy platform to characterize IDPs in dilute solution
Credit: Vince St. Dollente Mesias, Jinqing Huang / The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology It is challenging to ...
Improved catalyst may translate to petrochemical production gains
A new and improved zeolite could mean greater yield and longer lifecycles for petrochemical catalystsCredit: University of Houston Aromatics are ...
Nature provides inspiration for breakthrough in self-regulating materials
Research conducted at UMass Amherst documents a new platform for interactive soft materialsCredit: Courtesy Hyunki Kim AMHERST Mass. - Scientists ...
University of Pittsburgh’s Anna C. Balazs elected to National Academy of Sciences
Credit: Aimee Obidzinski PITTSBURGH (April 26, 2021) ... Anna C. Balazs, an award-winning University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Professor in the ...
Photoexpansion: Bio-based polyesters hard film
Scientists established a new concept of "photoexpansion" using microfabricated polycinnamate hard films revealed by time-resolved IR spectroscopyCredit: Image courtesy: Tatsuo ...
The future looks bright for infinitely recyclable plastic
A new environmental and technological analysis suggests that a revolutionary eco-friendly plastic is almost ready to hit the shelvesCredit: (Credit: ...
Jane Austen quote encoded in a polymer
Credit: Sarah Moor Using a novel molecular-data-storage technique, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have encoded a quote ...
To design truly compostable plastic, scientists take cues from nature
New technology could steer plastics from landfills, oceans -- and into your backyard compost binCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Ting ...
Illuminating invisible bloody fingerprints with a fluorescent polymer
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c00710 Careful criminals usually clean a scene, wiping away visible ...
New process makes ‘biodegradable’ plastics truly compostable
Polymer-eating enzymes embedded in plastic allow programmed degradationCredit: Christopher DelRe, UC Berkeley Biodegradable plastics have been advertised as one solution ...
New conductive polymer ink opens for next-generation printed electronics
A high-conductivity n-type polymeric ink for printed electronicsCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a stable high-conductivity ...
Understanding interfaces of hybrid materials with machine learning
Austrian pyhsicists are able to devise a design principle for the self-assembly of functionalized moleculesCredit: Jeindl - TU Graz The ...
Process simultaneously removes toxic metals and salt to produce clean water
Adding absorbent nanoparticles to polymer membranes simplifies desalinationCredit: UC Berkeley photos courtesy of Adam Uliana University of California, Berkeley, chemists ...
Plastics could see a second life as biodegradable surfactants
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Scientists at the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP), an Energy Frontier ...
Water purification system engineered from wood, with help from a microwave oven
Credit: Giuseppe Melilli Researchers in Sweden have developed a more eco-friendly way to remove heavy metals, dyes and other pollutants ...
HIV has been had
Credit: Department of Medicinal Chemistry, TMDU Tokyo, Japan - A team of scientists led by the Institute of Biomaterials and ...
New study reveals charge transfer at interface of spinel oxide and ceria during CO oxidation
Credit: UNIST A recent study has unveiled the reason behind the exceptional catalytic performance of non-noble metal-base mixed catalysts. This ...
When FRETing over cancer biomarkers won’t work, focus on blinking instead
Researchers from Osaka University used a photostabilizer to access otherwise hidden chemical details of DNA conformational dynamics, and to detect ...
