Polymer blends and alloys offer diverse properties through efficient and inexpensive manufacturing methods, making them applicable in several applications. 2 With increasing environmental concerns and ...

Polymers are a popular material for everyday objects and have many industrial applications, with their use increasing rapidly. However, for new polymers to be developed and commercialized is often a ...

Most polymers don’t mix—and that’s the point. Polymer alloys succeed by engineering the interface: use thermodynamics to ...

Several kinds of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biosynthesized by various bacteria as energy-storage materials. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 They may be produced from renewable ...

Scientists often seek new materials derived from polymers. Rather than starting a polymer search from scratch, they save time and money by blending existing polymers to achieve desired properties. But ...

insights from industryDr. Lucivan Barros & Ron RubinovitzSebior Application ScientistsThermo Fisher Scientific In this interview, AZoMaterials speaks with Dr. Lucivan Barros, Senior Application ...

Assembly of polymer blends (pdf) is of interest to form non-uniform morphologies with arbitrary shapes. Assembly is driven by selective hydrophobic/hydrophilic ...

(Nanowerk News) We live surrounded by polymers and today, rather than come up with new polymers, there is a tendency to modify them in order to obtain new applications. Carbon nanotubes have excellent ...

Carbon nanomaterials offer formulators and designers of polymer composites additives that can boost mechanical strength. However, these improvements do not materialize as expected when such systems ...