Many Na-ion batteries still fall below expectations and below that of commercially available batteries. For large-scale ...

Scientists in the U.S. have developed polymer microparticles that can release vaccines at specific times after injection, sometimes even months later, potentially removing the need for multiple ...

Around the world, 20 percent of children are not fully immunized, leading to 1.5 million child deaths each year from diseases that are preventable by ...

To make it easier for children to receive all of their vaccines, MIT researchers are working to develop microparticles that can release their payload weeks or months after being injected.

The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first became apparent in the 1970s. In the half-century since then, the problem has become ever more ...

Learn how carbon fiber is manufactured from PAN, cellulose, and pitch precursors through polymerization, spinning, stabilization, carbonization, and surface treatment to create strong, lightweight ...

The main component of plastics are molecules called polymers, which are long chains of small repeating units called monomers. Current physical recycling simply reuses the polymers without breaking ...

A linear increase of molecular weights with conversion and low polydispersity polymers (M w /M n = 1.2) were obtained in toluene, at room temperature, when N,N-dimethylacrylamide was used as the ...

Previous studies have shown the potential of sulfobetaine polymer, a zwitterionic polymer ... can cause proteins to misfold and form aggregates, hampering their ability to perform their original ...

(12) Glycidyl acrylate(13) has also been polymerized by ATRP yielding well-defined polymers containing the reactive glycidyl group, which can be used as a precursor for other functional groups.(14) ...

Polymers are advanced materials that are found almost in every material that is used in daily life. They consist of several small molecules named monomers that are linked together to form long chains ...