Rice University materials scientists developed a fast, low-cost, scalable method to make covalent organic frameworks (COFs). Credit: Photo by Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University Researchers at Rice…
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Scientists have developed a novel family of polymers that effectively kills bacteria, including E. coli and MRSA, without causing antibiotic resistance. This breakthrough, involving multidisciplinary…
Superabsorbers become liquid under UV light after they have taken up sufficient water. Then, they can be reused. Credit: Ken Pekarsky, KIT Water and UV…
Researchers at the University of Illinois have advanced our understanding of semiconductor materials by exploring chirality. Their study, led by Professor Ying Diao, delved into…
Researchers from POSTECH and Sogang University developed a functional polymeric binder for stable, high-capacity anode materials, offering 10 times the capacity of conventional graphite anodes.…
Using energy from light equivalent to sunlight the artificial photosynthesis system uses enzymes and a rhodium catalyst to produce a biodegradable plastic precursor. Now for…
Scientists have a contact lens prototype that is specially designed to prevent contact lens-induced dry eye. Credit: Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation A team from…
Using sunlight to power the photoredox system pyruvic acid and CO¬2 are converted into fumaric acid, by malate dehydrogenase and fumarase. Credit: Yutaka Amao, Osaka…
Polymer fluorescent inks can now also be produced in red. Credit: ETH Zurich ETH Zurich researchers have created new fluorescent dyes that are simple and…
For their artificial fairy, Hao Zeng and Jianfeng Yang got inspired by dandelion seeds. Credit: Jianfeng Yang / Tampere University The loss of pollinators, such…
Diabetic wounds, also known as diabetic foot ulcers, are a common complication of diabetes. They are typically caused by a combination of factors such as…
A group of scientists at the University of Chicago has discovered a way to create a material in which the molecular fragments are jumbled and…
The team’s vanillin derivative can be degraded upon command. This instruction would be sent with a certain wavelength of light. Light-based upcycling: crosslinked polymers produced…
They discovered that incorporating even 3% of sugar polymer units into PLA (Poly(lactic acid) caused PLA to degrade by 40% after six hours of UV…
The lepidopteran Galleria mellonella worm species is able to quickly break down polyethylene through the use of its saliva. A CSIC research team found that…
Timelapse of plastic degradation. A new enzyme variant can break down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to…
A green method for producing crystalline supramolecular fibers promises to make polymer production more sustainable. A polymer that catalyzes its own formation in an environmentally…
MIT and IBM researchers have use a generative model with a graph grammar to create new molecules belonging to the same class of compound as…
A bacterial enzyme (crystal structure shown here) makes a new type of biodegradable polymer, acholetin, which might someday find use in drug delivery, tissue engineering…