While natural polymers, including starches and cellulose, are still commonly used in biomedical research, the utilization of synthetic biodegradable polymers in pharmaceutical and tissue-engineering ...

A recent Science paper discusses the utilization of a previously reported synthetic Escherichia coli to produce virus-resistant synthetic polymers for future drug production applications. By ...

Biodegradable polymers are a type of polymer that exists both naturally and can be synthesized in laboratories. This special class of polymer is broken down naturally by microbial processes to produce ...

Double helical covalent polymers—which are spiraling collections of nature’s building blocks—are fundamental to life itself, and yet, despite decades of research, scientists have never been able to ...

Nylon, rubber, silicone, Teflon, PVC -- these are all examples of human-made polymers -- long chains of repeated molecular units that we call monomers. While polymers also exist in nature (think wool, ...

Synthetic polymers are employed in a wide range of industries, including food, automotive, and packaging, for a variety of applications. The caliber of the polymers or polymer blends utilized during ...