Researchers have created a new class of ultra-strong adhesives that can haul a full-size car using nothing more than a thin ...

Plastics, by and large, are well-understood materials. Not as strong as most metals, but often much lighter, these man-made polymers have found innumerable applications that have revolutionized the ...

This glue is made from leftover cooking oil, which contains fatty acids that are ideal for making flexible, durable, and ...

Specialty chemicals company XlynX Materials Inc. has introduced a surface-activating primer designed specifically for use with low-surface-energy polymers, such as polyethylene and polypropylene. The ...

New computer design methods pave the way for scientists to design and assemble bundles of peptides. Peptides are compounds of amino acids, organic substances that make up proteins. These new design ...

For over a century, steel rebar has been the go-to material to reinforce concrete but a new approach promises to make the common building material stronger and more environmentally friendly.

(Web Desk) - Chemists used waste cooking oil to create a sustainable, super-sticky adhesive that's strong enough to hold up ...

As this polymer network is stretched, weaker crosslinking bonds (blue) break more easily than any of the strong polymer strands, making it more difficult for a crack to propagate through the material.

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. Working with a type of ...

The University of Akron, Case Western Reserve and Kent State universities, and the region's entire polymer industry, will get a new research and development center — if backers win $17 million in ...