That randomness can be leveraged to design synthetic polymers that mix well with natural proteins, creating biocompatible plastics more easily than today's targeted techniques, Xu says.

From medicine to electronics and optics, new materials developed by scientists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) can ...

New methods were developed for better characterization of the microstructure of the polymer macromolecules. This, in turn, allowed the engineering of polymers with specific physical and chemical ...

Synthetic polymers have changed the world around us. However, It is hard to finely tune some of their properties, such as the ability to transport ions. To overcome this problem, researchers ...

Hyperbranched Polymers Attract Interest from Researchers Throughout the years, the significant developments in polymer materials science and technology have resulted in the refinements of established ...

The most common method for synthesizing polymers with a carbon–carbon main chain backbone is vinyl polymerization, by which ...

But it offers much more than record-breaking dessert portions: it is the first synthetic polymer that can match the rigidity found in many biological polymers, says Margaret Gardel, a biophysicist ...

The chemical tree got a bit of a shake this week with scientists at IBM announcing the discovery of the first new class of polymer materials in decades. Discovered using a combination of lab ...

Using AI, synthesized random heteropolymers mimic proteins in blood serum, cell's cytosol.

This is how you should interface with biological fluids."Her ultimate goal is to totally rethink how biomaterials are currently designed, because current methods — focused primarily on mimicking the ...