If you look closely at a brick house you’ll notice something very peculiar. All the bricks are layered in a specific pattern. This helps make the house strong! In science we can see something similar ...

Two years after courses in polymer chemistry began to be offered at Virginia Tech, Paul J. Flory received the 1974 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his achievement in the physical chemistry of ...

Bring up plastics and everyone asks you if you’ve seen The Graduate. Yes, we’ve seen the future and indeed, it’s plastic. Antonio Molinari has class project experience working extensively with steel ...

The Polymer Education Committee of the American Chemical Society offers annual awards for excellence to high school and junior high school science teachers who have introduced the study of polymer ...

Soon, the University of Akron will no longer have a College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering. It will become a school within a new college of engineering instead, according to the university ...

Household appliances, electric vehicles and mobiles drive a doubling of the global demand for rechargeable batteries every three years or so. The Energy and Nanomaterials Unit at Waseda University in ...

All of us should know more about Ohio’s polymer industry. To get started, check out a new video produced by Jobs-Ohio: https://youtu.be/XuYIkvdAfZ0. The video ...

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 ...

Dr. Phil Costanzo, a chemistry professor at Cal Poly, is the recipient of the James Flack Norris Award for outstanding teaching in chemistry by the American Chemical Society. A Cal Poly chemistry ...

With rapid advances in high-throughput computing, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, polymer informatics is emerging as a promising tool to ensure breakthrough ...