Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have uncovered a path to design superionic polymer ...

Two years after courses in polymer chemistry began to be offered at Virginia Tech, Paul J. Flory received the 1974 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his achievement in the physical chemistry of ...

A research team at Georgia Tech has built what it calls the first generative AI system purpose-built for polymer design, and the models have already produced a new dielectric material that held up ...

ORNL has pioneered molten salt research since the 1960s, when its Molten Salt Reactor Experiment showed that molten salt ...

Researchers at Koç University have developed a light-driven method to produce porous semiconducting polymers under ambient ...

Electrochemical processes in devices like solar cells, fuel cells, lithium batteries, and water desalination systems rely on the safe, efficient, and robust transport of anions and cations between ...

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a transformative tool in polymer science, enabling researchers to predict material properties and guide polymer design with unprecedented speed and precision.

One hundred years ago, in 1920, the German chemist Hermann Staudinger published his classic paper entitled "Über Polymerisation" ("On Polymerization"). In that paper, he proposed a chain structure for ...

In polymer science, it pays to be persistent. University of Washington chemical engineer Samson A. Jenekhe has dedicated decades of research in the lab to understanding and optimizing the properties ...

Organic catalysts have exciting potential for both constructing and deconstructing plastics. They could offer significant advantages as greener alternatives to metal-based catalysts. Emerging ...