Two University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to develop new plastic ...

The field of polymer science has seen a transformative evolution with the development of self-healing biodegradable materials ...

Supramolecular polymers—the versatile, "next-gen" polymers—offer potential applications in a variety of fields. However, achieving precise control of their polymerization requires a greater ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...

Polymers are macromolecules composed of simpler repeating structural units linked together by covalent bonds. Natural polymers exist in nature as biomolecules and compounds that make up the body of ...

Over the past few decades, food packaging markets have captured the attention of researchers due to their direct impact on human health. Both metallic and nonmetallic materials find use in the food ...

Researchers describe a new kind of polymer membrane they created that could reshape how refineries process crude oil, dramatically reducing the energy and water required while extracting even more ...

The method of fabricating structures and devices at the nanoscale, known as nanofabrication, has resulted in major developments in several fields, such as electronics, medicine, and materials science.

To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ...

A sample of a DUCKY polymer membrane researchers created to perform the initial separation of crude oils using significantly less energy. A new kind of polymer membrane created by researchers at ...