Today’s modern electronic devices are demanding greater energy storage to carry out increasingly complex tasks. They also need to be super flexible and durable without sacrificing performance. As the ...

An AIST research team has developed a certified reference material (CRM) with a single degree of polymerization without distribution of molecular weight, even though it is an artificially manufactured ...

Scientists are keen to develop new materials for lightweight, flexible, and affordable wearable electronics so that, one day, dropping our smartphones won’t result in irreparable damage. One team at ...

Polymers are versatile materials, of which plastics are perhaps the most well known examples. Under a microscope, polymers usually look like squiggly threads, one-dimensional chains of units called ...

Researchers have succeeded in synthesizing the longest ever bottlebrush polymer. This polymer -- resembling a green foxtail -- is composed of a main chain and numerous side chains grafting from it.

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NIMS and RIKEN have succeeded in synthesizing the longest ever bottlebrush polymer. This polymer--resembling a green foxtail--is composed of a main chain and numerous side chains grafting from it. The ...

Designing plastics that can be broken down easily after their use phase have often required a trade-off between stability and ...

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is commonly employed in the evaluation of polymer materials’ physical properties; for example, their melting point, glass transition point, and thermal ...