polymers

A research team has introduced i-Tac, an inverse-design workflow for 3D printed tactile elastomers that could streamline how designers prototype soft touch surfaces. The post i-Tac Inverse Design Tunes 3D Printed Elastomers’ Optics And Haptics appeared on Fabbaloo .

Researchers at Penn State have demonstrated that ordinary adhesive tape has a specialized type of material memory capable of storing a sequence of multiple memories that can be fine-tuned to have different strengths or be erased to make way for new memories.

Senior member Katie Sun participated in the University of Pennsylvania’s 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and won 2nd place! Penn 3MT is a university-wide competition designed to showcase graduate students’ research and communications skills in a three-minute talk to a general audience. Katie’s thesis centers around the adsorption of nanoparticles to polymer brushes, which she …

5th-year PhD Student, Katie Sun, presented her research on “Selectivity of Gold Nanoparticle Adsorption in a Weak Polyelectrolyte Brush Controlled Through Grafting Density Changes” at the APS Division of Polymer Physics (DPLOY) conference in Denver, Colorado. The technical session was focused on experts in block copolymers, polymers, and biomacromolecules at interfaces. This marks her…

David Bujdos, a second-year PhD student, presented his poster on the “Slow Kinetics of Confined Diblock Copolymer upon Infiltration into a Bicontinuous, Nanoporous Gold Scaffold” at the APS Division of Polymer Physics (DPLOY) conference in Denver, Colorado. This year there were 85 DPLOY posters presented, and David had the honor of being selected for the […]

Barocal might have discovered a cheap, nonpolluting material that could dethrone today's refrigeration technology.

Iron ions drift into a freshly printed gel, soaking through its polymer mesh the way water moves into a sponge. Then the gel is dipped into a second bath, this one laced with hydroxide ions, and something clicks: the iron bonds, crystallizes, becomes magnetite, iron oxide nanoparticles forming in place, locked inside the structure, too small to see without an electron microscope. The gel, moments…

Researchers have designed a heat-resistant polyamide that generates white light without added dyes or dopants. The post Beyond textiles: polyamides reimagined as light-emitting materials appeared first on Advanced Science News .

Perovskites break efficiency records monthly, yet commercialization remains perpetually "a few years away." Meanwhile, intrinsically flexible, lead-free all-polymer solar cells are quietly breaching 20% efficiency with vastly superior stability. Have we backed the wrong champion?

The film looks like ordinary polycaprolactone, the same polymer used in 3D-printing filaments and some dissolvable surgical sutures. Flexible, translucent, unremarkable. But sealed inside it, dormant and waiting, are two populations of engineered bacterial spores with a preprogrammed task: given the right signal, they will wake up, work together, and consume their own home entirely. Zhuojun Dai, …

Scientific Reports, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-50980-7 Characterization and industrial application of a gyroid-shaped novel graphite and MoS 2 -modified polyamide 3D membrane

Nature Communications, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72527-0 Concentration polarization limits cycling stability of cells at high currents. Here, authors propose a mechanical-electrochemical conversion strategy by constructing a piezo electrolyte that actively utilizes the unavoidable volume fluctuation of lithium metal to minimize concentration polarization.

Many plastic products are designed to be used only once, yet the material itself lasts for years. But a new strategy is addressing this problem by creating products that self-destruct on command, known as living plastics. These materials incorporate activatable, plastic-degrading microbes alongside the polymers. One team reporting in ACS Applied Polymer Materials used two bacterial strains that w…

A research team led by Senior Researcher Dr. Jun Sae Han at the Nano Lithography and Manufacturing Research Center, Nano-Convergence Research Division, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM, President Seog-Hyeon Ryu), has proposed a roll-to-roll (R2R)-based direct roll lamination process.

BackgroundPoly (1,4-bis(methacryloyl)piperazine) (poly (NBMP)) is a piperazine-based polymer with potential biomedical applications. Green clay catalysts, maghnite-H+ and maghnite-Na+; offer an eco-friendly approach for monomer (NBMP) and polymer (poly (NBMP)) synthesis with improved yields and low toxicity.AimTo synthesize poly (NBMP) via green catalysis, evaluate its structural properties, and …

Binghamton University, State University of New York Assistant Professor Robert Wagner will receive $569,573 to fund research that could close the gap between what's going on molecularly and what we can observe, incorporating machine learning with both simulated and real-world experiments to analyze the behavior of polymer chains.

A research team designed a photopolymer resin loaded with PEDOT:PSS and nano-graphite to achieve 3D printable electrical conductivity. The post Researchers Boost SLA Resin Conductivity With PEDOT:PSS appeared on Fabbaloo .

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.