CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers have developed a simple method of making short protein chains with spiral structures that can also dissolve in water, two desirable traits not often found together. Such structures could have applications as buildi…
The ability of some forms of plankton and bacteria to build an extra natural layer of nanoparticle-like armour has inspired chemists at the University of Warwick to devise a startlingly simple way to give drug bearing polymer vesicles (microscopic…
Plastics-based materials have been in use for decades. But manufacturers are facing a serious hurdle in their quest for new developments: Substantial influences of the microscopic material structure on mechanical material properties cannot be ob…
DURHAM, N.C. — Crazy bands are cool because no matter how long they’ve been stretched around a kid’s wrist, they always return to their original shape, be it a lion or a kangaroo.
Now a Duke and Stanford chemistry team has found a polymer molecul…