Explore innovations in industrial biopolymers and their role in creating sustainable, eco-friendly alternatives for packaging ...

So, rather than starting from scratch with an alternative polymer, Frey used a careful modification of the existing PEG polymer to break up these repeating units and outwit the immune system.

Given a polymer repeat unit, degree of polymerization, and other calculation conditions, the entire MD simulation process is fully automated, including conformational search, charge calculation ...

Now, Daniel Anderson, Allen Jiang, Sushil Lathwal and colleagues have hypothesized that a different type of polymer, one with repeating units of positively and negatively charged components called ...

New polymer design breaks the tradeoff between toughness and recyclability Date: October 7, 2024 Source: Osaka University Summary: Researchers have created a high-performance polymer that can be ...

Chemical recycling is a newer method that breaks the polymer chains back down into their monomer units and then strings the units back together. The recycled plastic is as good as new.

Strengthening and Recycling Polymers The main component of plastics are molecules called polymers, which are long chains of small repeating units called monomers. Current physical recycling simply ...

Polymer informatics can significantly accelerate the discovery of high-performance energy storage capacitors. By defining multiple desired properties, such as high glass transition temperature and ...

The team constructed several polymers, each having a water-insoluble backbone with different water-soluble carbohydrates dangling from the repeating units like charms on a bracelet. In initial tests, ...

Polycyanoacrylates (Super Glue) Nylon is a polymer consisting of alternating units of two different chemicals, but many polymers repeat units of a single chemical, including polystyrene, polyethylene, ...

Polymer A polymer (from Greek πολύ-ς /po΄li-s/ much, many and μέρος /΄meros/ part) is a large molecule (macromolecule) composed of repeating structural units typically connected by ...

For the polymer repeat-unit design problem, which uses the GC + model (Sataynarayana et al., 2007) for predicting the properties of the generated repeat-unit structures, polymer repeat-units are ...