Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a method to convert a commonly discarded ...

ORNL has pioneered molten salt research since the 1960s, when its Molten Salt Reactor Experiment showed that molten salt ...

The technique pioneered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory produces high-value-added chemicals from plastic waste without ...

The 19th-century science fiction novel Frankenstein explores the idea of combining artificial materials with human body ...

Researchers at Purdue University have grown conductive polymers inside the brains of living animals using the animals’ own blood as a chemical trigger, then used near-infrared light to switch neural ...

Albuquerque, N.M. — For the past three years a Sandia research team headed by Mat Celina has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultra ...

In a recent study (ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, "Design of Experiments Grants Mechanistic Insights into the Synthesis of Spermine-Containing PBAE Copolymers") by the research group of Olivia ...

Zhengzhou University researchers have developed a game-changing polymer that achieves nearly 20% efficiency in organic solar cells (OSCs) at a fraction of the cost of existing materials. This leap ...

Engineered polymers hold promise for use in next generation technologies such as light-harvesting devices and implantable electronics that interact with the nervous system – but creating polymers with ...