Researchers utilize inexpensive materials to combine qualities that are rarely found together in manufactured products.

Plastics, elastomers and polymers are organic synthetic or processed materials typically consisting of thermoplastic or thermosetting resins that can be made into or supplied as shapes, film, sheet, ...

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A new type of 3D-printed plastic can easily be stretched, melted, and reformed, making it a perfect material for multiple ...

In an interview with Ideastream Public Media. Dhinojwala noted UA has had polymer chemistry classes going back to 1909, ...

A team of scientists has created a new shape-changing polymer that could transform how future soft materials are constructed. Made using a material called a liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE), a ...

Soft materials include liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids, granular materials, as well as most soft biological materials. Liquid-crystal-elastomer-based torus microrobots capable of self ...

A team of researchers has successfully developed a unique kind of 3D-printed plastic, one that is both affordable and ...

A team of scientists has created a new shape-changing polymer that could transform how future soft materials are constructed. Made using a material called a liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE), a ...