Recently, Virgil Percec and co-workers 1 from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have shown how helical polymers can provide such capabilities. These polymers, in which each individual ...

The ability to control the sequence of building blocks in polymers with increasing levels of precision offers new opportunities for tailoring the properties of designer synthetic macromolecules.

University of Sydney researchers are developing a surface coating that could stop blood clotting in medical devices like ...

A team of materials scientists and engineers at ETH Zurich has developed a light-triggered chemical process for breaking down ...

This, in turn, resulted in the development of many Aplastics@ and other polymeric materials and also stimulated research into the structure and properties of more complex biological macromolecules ...

Zwitterions sound likes a distant cousin of Twitter (X), but in fact they are a common macromolecule found in human cells.

Chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method for producing new macromolecules with improved properties by modifying the polymers in discarded ...

Published last month in the journal Macromolecules, the study describes how researchers designed and generated a polyurethane ...

Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil joined the Max Planck Society in 2017 as one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, heading the division “Synthesis of Macromolecules”. She studied ...