Dissolving polymers with organic solvents is the essential process in the research and development of polymeric materials, including polymer synthesis, refining, painting, and coating. Now more than ...

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

Highly permeable and selective membranes are desirable for energy-efficient gas and liquid separations. Microporous organic polymers have attracted significant attention in this respect owing to their ...

Complex emulsions are attractive for applications like cosmetics, drug delivery, and sensing. Now, David A. Weitz and colleagues at Harvard University have a new way to manipulate these systems: They ...

New research by the University of Liverpool’s Chemistry Department represents an important breakthrough in the field of polymer science. In a paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry and ...

Split ends: This image of a dendritic polymer particle was taken via confocal microscopy and coloured for vertical directions. A single “hairy” particle can reach several hundred microns in overall ...