A controlled/"living" click polymerization method developed by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and Nagoya ...

A new recipe, or design guidelines, for a self-strengthening muscle-like hydrogel has been developed through strategic integration of computational, information, and experimental research. The ...

More information: Davide Breoni et al, Giant activity-induced elasticity in entangled polymer solutions, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60210-9 Provided by Heinrich-Heine ...

Synthetic polymers are large molecules made of chains of repeated chemical subunits called monomers. They are used to make a variety of materials, including many plastics, and coatings on drugs.

The material properties of polymers are determined by the competition between polymer chain folding and aggregation. For the first time, researchers from Japan developed folded supramolecular ...

A postfunctionalization strategy using blue LED light and an organophotoredox catalyst generates carbocation intermediates on polymer chains, enabling the incorporation of phosphonate esters. This ...