Polymer surfaces and interfaces have received much attention in industrial fields because of their functional properties, including appearance, surface protection, reflectivity, anti-fouling, ...

Digital polymer chemistry leverages computational methods to design and optimize polymer materials. While there have been advances in using machine learning to accelerate the design of polymers, the ...

To upcycle the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invented a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material ...

Artistic rendering of the new plastic. Cross linked salt bridges visible in the plastic outside the seawater give it its structure and strength. In seawater (and in soil, not depicted), resalting ...