Imagine a microscopic locomotive moving back and forth along a track, propelling itself without any external force. At the ...

Interconnected materials containing networks are ubiquitous in the world around us—rubber, car tires, human and engineered ...

Researchers have genetically engineered microbes to produce a strong, flexible plastic similar to nylon for the first time.

polymer chain or network. Covalent organic frameworks are typically synthesized using solvothermal conditions with high temperature and long reaction time. Here, the authors report a general and ...

The design of polymer networks is one of the oldest and most important challenges in chemistry, impacting many of the highest volume chemical industries from rubber to adhesives to biomedical ...

NexGen Polymers, a leading supplier and broker of virgin and recycled polymers, brings over 30 years of experience in polymer ...

Recent work in The EMBO Journal describes a new hybrid post-translational modification of proteins, composed of a poly-ubiquitin chain that is attached to a target protein via a mono-ADP-ribose (MAR) ...