What if your next hard drive wasn’t a box, but a string of molecules? Synthetic polymers promises to revolutionize data ...

Life on Earth possesses an exceptional ability to self-reproduce, which, even on a simple cellular level, is driven by ...

Single-chain crosslinked star polymers with multiple hydrophilic short arms and a hydrophobic core were created as novel microgel star polymers of single polymer chains. The synthetic process ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Polymer chain stretching enables the plastic and elastic properties that make polymers ...

The polymer chains are broken down into their individual monomer building blocks, which can then be purified using straightforward distillation processes. The mechanism relies on a chlorinated solvent ...

Not only is it the first 2D mechanically interlocked polymer, but the novel material also contains 100 trillion mechanical bonds per 1 square centimeter — the highest density of mechanical bonds ever ...

This straightforward strategy induces molecular diffusion in the reactants that ultimately favor the formation of longer polymer chains while also saving massive amounts of energy, paving the way to ...

In this review article, we discuss the synthesis and dynamic nature of macromolecular systems that have mechanically linked polymer chains capable of undergoing a topology transformation driven by ...