Polymer clay is gaining popularity largely due to its exceptional flexibility, especially with jewelry artisans. Its moldability and resilience make it perfect for crafting detailed patterns and ...

Solid-state distributed feedback lasers have been built by researchers at the University of St Andrews by embossing a wavelength-scale pattern into a thin film of semiconducting polymer. The pattern, ...

With a new spin on a reaction called frontal polymerization, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology can create materials ...

It is well documented that carbon nanotubes have a huge variety of potential applications. This is due to their high electrical and thermal conductivities, exceptional strength, stiffness and ability ...