Polymer-based—or plastic—synthetic materials have a hold on the fashion industry, currently making up about two-thirds of all fibers used in textiles with no signs of slowing down. At the same time, ...

Well-established regulations have been used worldwide to certify the mechanical characteristics of advanced materials like polymer nanocomposites across different industries. To establish a ...

Details of their research was published in the journal Langmuir. The COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the need for fast and reliable infectious disease testing in large numbers. Most testing done today ...

Machine learning (ML) models train on existing material-property data to predict these desired outcomes. Additionally, the team can generate new polymers, whose properties are forecasted with ML ...

A little more than a decade after implantation, patients with mostly stable and unstable angina do similarly well no matter whether their drug-eluting stent did or did not have a polymer, according to ...

However, they must be suitable for their intended use, regardless of whether they are functional or cosmetic. Their research, development, and quality control processes are heavily reliant on the ...

Over the past several years throughout the automotive, packaging, healthcare and electronics industries, the demand for plastics and polymers has been on the rise, increasing the frequency and use of ...

HSE researchers, jointly with colleagues from the RAN Institute of Organoelement Compounds and the RAN Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, have studied the properties of a ...

Bounce Innovation Hub has launched a new, 12-month accelerator for polymer and materials science startups called Synthe6.