The most common method for synthesizing polymers with a carbon–carbon main chain backbone is vinyl polymerization, by which many industrially important polymers, including common plastics such as ...

Chemists grew the longest conductive polymer chains ever made on a surface, nearly one micrometer long, using a clean process that enables precise nanoribbons. (Nanowerk News) Chemists have grown the ...

The polymer chains contain segments that can be degraded by enzymes, which are naturally occurring biological catalysts. Light irradiation alters the host–guest interactions, thereby controlling the ...

Crude oil refining still relies heavily on thermal distillation, a process that separates hydrocarbons by repeated heating ...

Imagine a microscopic locomotive moving back and forth along a track, propelling itself without any external force. At the molecular level, this concept forms the foundation of molecular motors -- ...

For more than half a century, materials scientists have struggled with how to simulate the complexity of polymer materials.

The two different types of polymer architectures with dynamic bonds at crosslink points. The world is filled with a myriad of sounds and vibrations—the gentle tones of a piano drifting down the hall, ...

Fast-scanning atomic force microscopy imaging of the molecule at two different time points shows positional shifts along the polymer chain on the left. On the right, the molecular structure of PEG ...