Computational physicists and chemists have shed new light on how the polymer structure bears on the glass-transition temperature in the forming of glass in atactic polystyrene (PS), a commonly used ...

In the current study, a breakthrough methodology has been utilized to deliver polymer composites based on polystyrene (PS) with enhanced optoelectronic properties. In this work, bitumen (BT), which is ...

Concentrated light-absorption on specific areas of polystyrene (PS) sheet induces self-folding behaviour. Such localized light-absorption control is easily realized by black-coloured line pattern ...

Polymers are extensively used throughout industry, whether as naturally occurring materials like starch and cellulose, or synthetic commodities like nylon, polystyrene and polyethylene. Polymer ...

Glasses are not, perhaps surprisingly, technically solid in a crystalized form, but are substances frozen in a liquidlike structure. Many fundamental questions remain as to exactly how glasses form, ...