Conducting polymers have emerged as a pivotal class of materials for advanced optoelectronic applications owing to their tunable molecular structure, ...

Designing plastics that can be broken down easily after their use phase have often required a trade-off between stability and ...

Polymers with breakable bonds inserted into the polymer chains (B) were more easily degraded and re-formed than those with breakable bonds in the cross-lnks (A). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are ...

One hundred years ago, in 1920, the German chemist Hermann Staudinger published his classic paper entitled "Über Polymerisation" ("On Polymerization"). In that paper, he proposed a chain structure for ...

The term smart polymer embraces a wide range of different compounds that can change their color, transparency or shape in response to their environment; they are smart because of their ability to ...