"However, instead of editing strands of genes, we are editing polymer chains. This isn't the typical plastic recycling 'melt and hope for the best' scenario." The ORNL researchers precisely edited ...

Take the tangled spaghetti-soup of a polymer melt and stretch it: the immediate response is like that of an elastic network, as the polymers are forced to deform through their mutual entanglements.

What if we could invent materials that can repair themselves when damaged? Polymer molecules in various states – solid, melt, solution – are susceptible to covalent bond changes in response to ...

On frozen walkways, however, shoe soles with these materials can cause ice to melt because of pressure ... for developing more effective anti-slip polymers. Those works found that their footpad's ...

Electrospinning operates on a straightforward principle involving a high-voltage electric field applied between a droplet of polymer solution (or melt) held by a syringe and a grounded collector. The ...

There are greater intermolecular forces between the long chains compared with smaller simple molecules. This means that polymers have a higher melting point than many other organic molecules.