Polymers that crawl like worms: How materials can develop direction without being told where to go

Researchers at the University of Vienna have uncovered a surprising phenomenon: polymer chains with segments that simply ...
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Researchers capture thermal fluctuations in polymer segments for the first time

Polymer-based adhesives are essential for bonding lightweight materials used in transportation; however, how individual ...
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New method produces longest-ever conductive polymer chains for atomically precise carbon nanoribbons

Chemists grew the longest conductive polymer chains ever made on a surface, nearly one micrometer long, using a clean process ...

Study captures single polymer segments sticking and slipping on surfaces

Kyushu University researchers have directly observed, for the first time, how individual polymers—chain-like molecules—behave ...