“We believe it will make a huge difference in organic electronics,” Researchers in the field of materials science are using a new technique to create “paint-on” plastic electronics tha... Read more
Plastic bags are a bane of nature. And not just bags – just about all plastics, really. Most are made out of petroleum, and a piece of plastic, if it misses the recycling bin and ends up in... Read more
Material could be used in fabrics and water purification Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have discovered an antibacterial polymer that can be used in everyday products such... Read more
The resulting design exhibited a three-fold increase over the Yablonovitch Limit The sun’s energy is virtually limitless, but harnessing its electricity with today’s single-crystal silicon s... Read more
Opens the door to development of new drug-delivery systems Researchers at North Carolina State University have come up with a technique to embed needle-like carbon nanofibers in an elastic m... Read more
A new discovery should make the alternative fuel butanol more attractive to the biofuel industry. University of Illinois scientist Hao Feng has found a way around the bottleneck that has fru... Read more
“We have developed a material that absorbs infrared and is all transparent to the visible light.” One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCL... Read more
Their remarkable electrical properties are similar to those of metals Researchers from CNRS and the Université de Strasbourg, headed by Nicolas Giuseppone (1) and Bernard Doudin (2), have su... Read more
Creating surfaces that are self-cleaning and water-repellant Just as a chameleon changes its color to blend in with its environment, Duke University engineers have demonstrated for the first... Read more
The idea is based on a remarkably simple principle Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for transforming two-dimensional print output into 3... Read more
A blast of gamma radiation could toughen up plastic prosthetic joints to make them strong enough to last for years A blast of gamma radiation could toughen up plastic prosthetic joints to ma... Read more
Polymers Fluoresce in the Presence of Bacteria Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed polymers that fluoresce in the presence of bacteria, paving the way for the rapid det... Read more
A fully functional, fast switching and printable transistor in cheap plastic is invented by researcher Lars Herlogsson, Linkoping University in Sweden. All six articles in his doctoral thesi... Read more
The plastics scientist talks about the process behind his work in polymers and what the future holds for inventors. Joseph DeSimone is a chemist, an inventor and a man with vision into the f... Read more