WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue researchers have created a transparent polymer film that also conducts electricity, introducing an inexpensive organic material for applications such as the screens of ...

The nature of how polymer clays work only has only recently come into fruition however this has led to the understanding that they have been around for a long time in the form of latex paints, ...

This is an image of glassomer. Glassomer can be milled, turnered, lasered or processed in CNC machines - just like a conventional polymer. (Image: Markus Breig, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) ...

Scientists have found a nanoparticle-inspired solution to the age-old strength issue of polymer glasses. Seasoning the polymer glass recipe with single-chain nanoparticles, which are tiny, folded-up ...

Polystyrene has a glass transition temperature of about 100 C -- at room temperature it behaves like a solid material. But as its temperature approaches the glass transition temperature, polystyrene’s ...

Polymers do not usually adhere to glass nor does much of anything else, but combining glass and polymer to create composite materials is possible if an intermediary polymer coupling agent can be used ...

Hydrogen fuel cells made with coordination polymer glass membranes could produce as much energy as their liquid-based counterparts while adding strength and flexibility Scientists at Japan's Institute ...

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation snapshots of a single ring polymer conformation taken from a dense melt of N = 1,600 for the four indicated values of bending energy. Different colors indicate ...

A new kind of highly durable glass-like polymer that can heal on its own has been discovered by Professor Takuzo Aida’s team of researchers from the University of Tokyo. Usually, polymers require ...