TSUKUBA, Japan - (NewMediaWire) - October 26, 2024 - Polymers such as polypropylene are fundamental materials in the modern world, found in everything from computers to cars. Because of their ubiquity ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a powerful mathematical modelling tool that will allow researchers to predict the properties of polymer networks before they are even created.

Scientists are now able to read patterns on long chains of molecules to understand and predict behavior of disordered strands of proteins and polymers. The results could, among other things, pave the ...

An image of a butterfly printed using a structural-color polymer. Credit: Dong Yang/Nat. Commun. The researchers based the model on block copolymers composed of ...

Old trees are learning new tricks with the advent of composite materials. A "green composite" made from biodegradable polymers and the waste bark of the Yakushima Jisugi tree was developed by a ...

A machine learning algorithm can use X-ray diffraction data from polymers to predict the behaviour of new materials. TSUKUBA, Japan, Oct 25, 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - Polymers such as polypropylene are ...

Malvern Panalytical announced that it entered into a co-marketing agreement with Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) to advance the analysis of polymers. By pairing the Waters® ACQUITY® Advanced Polymer ...

Polymers are defined as materials consisting of macromolecules that are made up of small, regularly repeating smaller subunits. The coextrusion process is a manufacturing process that uses different ...