Natural polymers, such as gelatin, cellulose, alginate, chitin, starch, rubber, and fibrin, are used to develop green nanocomposites. Their use also expands to ...

Polymer brushes are made up of continuous monomers that are attached to an interface by one chain link at a sufficiently high density for the polymers to extend outward from the substrate. These ...

Protein‐polymer conjugates represent a dynamic class of hybrid materials that combine the inherent biological function and specificity of proteins with the versatile properties of synthetic polymers.

Super absorbent polymers (SAPs) have quietly become one of the most influential material innovations of the modern era. Known for their extraordinary ability to absorb and retain large amounts of ...

Polymers play a vital role in medicine, they have widespread applications in drug delivery systems and biomedical devices because of their easy fabricability, low cost, chemical stability, and ...

Scratch testing is one of the methods that allow well defined characterization of scratch resistance of polymeric materials, both bulk and coatings such as paints. The scratch technique has therefore ...

Different thermal analysis methods have become a popular route for determining how different polymers behave under different temperature environments. Some polymers can be used in high-temperature ...

Researchers have found that they could use highly insulating aluminum-coated polymer film to improve the performance of ...

DUBLIN, Dec. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Water-Soluble Polymers Market" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report represents an in-depth analysis of the global ...

The global Film Forming Polymers VP/VA market is projected to grow from an estimated USD 172.8 million in 2025 to a ...

Baiqiang Huang (left), a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia, with UVA assistant professor Liheng Cai. Courtesy: Matt Cosner, University of ...