What if we could invent materials that can repair themselves when damaged? Polymer molecules in various states – solid, melt, solution – are susceptible to covalent bond changes in response to ...

Topics covered in this course include linear viscoelasticity, creep, stress relaxation, dynamic behavior, hysteresis, stress-strain response phenomena, principles of time-temperature superposition, ...

Topics covered in this course include linear viscoelasticity, creep, stress relaxation, dynamic behavior, hysteresis, stress-strain response phenomena, principles of time-temperature superposition, ...

The Richards Laboratory studies the properties of soft materials and engineers them for applications including renewable energy storage and new sensors. Schatz uses molecular dynamics and electronic ...

Scientists develop a highly efficient material that transforms light and moisture into precise mechanical movements and ...

This book is the first of Rapra’s new series of Polymer Testing books ... the structure and behaviour of new materials. Each class of materials has its own specific test procedures, which have ...

A biomaterial that can mimic certain behaviors within biological tissues could advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more, according to researchers.

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 ...

A biomaterial that can mimic certain behaviors within biological tissues could advance regenerative medicine, disease ...

Coordination polymers ... light from a material after it has absorbed photons (light energy). Fluorochromism: A phenomenon where a material changes its fluorescence properties in response to ...

A biomaterial that can mimic certain behaviors within biological tissues could advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more, according to researchers at Penn State.