Engineers at Battelle have used their knowledge of materials science, chemistry, physics, and polymer processing to develop a pattern-transfer technique used to fabricate specialized microfeatured ...

Polymers, such as plastics, are essential in many aspects of life and industry, from packaging and cars to medical devices and optic fibers. Their value comes from diverse properties that are largely ...

How can AI enhance polymers to develop the next generation of bioelectronics? This is what a recent study published in the journal Matter hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

Polymer brush films consists of monomer chains grown in close proximity on a substrate. The monomers, which look like “bristles” at the nanoscale, form a highly functional and versatile coating such ...

Polymer-based dielectrics are widely used in different electrical and electronic devices like capacitors, power transmission cables, and microchips. To adapt to different working conditions, a range ...

Machine learning, a tool increasingly used for the discovery and design of new materials, has now been adopted by researchers to design polymer brush films with desirable protein adsorption properties ...