Water treatment engineers have long wrestled with a stubborn paradox at the heart of membrane filtration: the toughest, most ...

Researchers have designed polymers that can be patterned directly with light into OLED pixels far smaller than those used in today's displays - a step ...

Motivated by growing concerns over the impact of conventional organic solvents on humans and their environmental safety, this review highlights recent advancements in the application of renewable ...

Spintronic devices are emerging as an approach to realize performance and energy efficiency beyond what is possible with traditional electronic devices. State-of-the-art metals and doped conjugated ...

The reversion of vinyl polymers with carbon-carbon backbones to their monomers represents an ideal path to alleviate the growing plastic waste stream. However, depolymerizing such stable materials ...

Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerizations have emerged as a powerful and cost-effective approach for fabricating ultrathin polymer films with diverse functionalities. During this free ...

Synthetic polymers play a crucial role in cell biology, serving as delivery vehicles for DNA and drugs, acting as fluorescent probes for cellular sensing, functioning as bioinks for tissue engineering ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The production of low molar mass polyacrylates commonly involves a starved-feed ...

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry have developed a nucleic-acid-based photocatalyst that can precisely control atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a popular ...

Traditional polyesters are obtained via ring-opening polymerization (ROP), but significant research is currently directed at designing new biodegradable vinyl polymers with esters groups in the ...