Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...

Researchers in South Korea have designed a polymer composite that keeps its structure even near 1,000 °C flames, potentially ...

Soft robots are only as capable as the artificial muscles that drive them, and for years those muscles have forced a trade-off between strength and flexibility. A new magnetic polymer design is ...

Ulanqab Kema’s growth is underpinned by a multifaceted strategic advantage. Its location in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, provides ...

With a recent breakthrough, a new facility on the horizon and more, the Polymer Industry Cluster is looking to build on its ...

“Visible light is much gentler and can penetrate deeper, making it more suitable for real-world applications,” says Huaping Xu, a professor at Tsinghua University and one of the study’s corresponding ...

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Building things so small that they are smaller than the width of a human hair was previously achieved by using a method ...

Polymer developed by Toray withstands temperatures exceeding 200°C, possibly a world first for vibration monitoring in ...

Whenever body armor comes to mind, we expect it to be heavy and inconvenient. However, there is a lightweight variant that makes use of 2D polymer material that is stronger than steel but as flexible ...