Then Deliberately Hands It Over to Humans Subway Customer Stunned After Noticing Both ‘Recycling’ and ‘Trash’ Slots End Up in ...

Inspired by the way a small cut in a person’s skin heals itself, polymer chemists would like to engineer materials that fix themselves when damaged. Researchers have been trying various strategies to ...

IBM's had a breakthrough in accelerated materials science and it's owed, in part, to a Dasani water bottle. It sounds simplistic, but the discovery of a new polymer that's not only super strong, but ...

Researchers have developed a novel synthetic substance that has the potential to be a more effective and safer way of delivering drugs around the body. Currently, Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is the most ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A membrane made up of block polymers has the customizable and uniform pore sizes needed for filtering or recovering particular substances from wastewater, researchers say in a ...

Expensive, state-of-the-art medical devices and surgeries often are thwarted by the body's natural response to attack something in the tissue that appears foreign. Now, engineers have demonstrated in ...

Shape-memory polymers have long intrigued materials scientists because they can be bent or twisted into a new configuration, which they’ll hold until some stimulus—such as heat—reverts them to their ...

A new material can pull a toxic, hard-to-degrade industrial chemical from drinking water more effectively than current methods. Perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, hangs around in the environment for ...

The polydispersity index (PDI) is an important statistic for determining the breadth or dispersion of grain size distribution. This article explores the analysis of the polydispersity index of a ...