A new recipe, or design guidelines, for a self-strengthening muscle-like hydrogel has been developed through strategic integration of computational, information, and experimental research. The ...

Australian scientists manage to break down 90% of styrofoam polystyrene plastics in 30 minutes using violet light, air, and ...

High thermal conductive polymeric materials have long been eagerly anticipated, as the conventional approach to creating high thermal conductive composites often falls short of expectations. In this ...

A research team led by Prof. Liu Qingsong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Science has ...

Vascular surgeon Dr Samantha Peden told the Australian News broadcaster that the patient’s aortic arch had ballooned to ...

Mechanochromic functionality realized through force-responsive molecules (i.e., mechanophores) has great potential for spatially localized damage warning in polymers. However, in structural plastics, ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

When aiming for stretchable, health-monitoring, skin-like sensor sheets, materials with demanding properties are required: they need to be flexible, biocompatible, and electrically conductive at the ...

Background Drug-eluting stents (DESs) have become the gold standard of coronary angioplasty since their inception in 2002. Biodegradable polymer DESs (BP-DESs) have been postulated to be superior to ...