MIT researchers have developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, raising the ...

A new type of "ink" makes it possible to 3D print electrochemically switchable, conducting polymers using a light-based ...

Stretchable electronics are an attractive means for producing mechanically robust devices with enhanced utility and can enable novel applications such as conformal solar cells, electronic skin and ...

Polymers formed from two-dimensional analogues of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) can be almost as impermeable to gases as graphene, researchers in the US have found. 1 The work could open up a ...

Researchers probe charged polymer droplets to reveal how their nanoscale behavior could shape future drug delivery and ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say their polymer coating could be used to protect photovoltaic modules, due to its impermeability to gases. The team has demonstrated that a ...

A South Korean research team has, for the first time, uncovered the molecular-level mechanism by which trace amounts of impurities—known as dopants—can reverse charge polarity in organic polymer ...

Brinson has been elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in recognition of her pioneering contributions to polymer ...

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Embolization, Inc. announced that its polymer-based coil intended for arterial and venous embolization in peripheral ...