UVa researchers have developed a polymer that defies traditional trade-offs between stiffness and stretchability, enabling ...

The study is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. The research overcomes the limitations of existing polymeric conductors and is attracting attention as an innovative technology ...

No longer is it dogma that the stiffer a polymeric material is, the less stretchable it has to be. “We are addressing a fundamental challenge that has been thought to be impossible to solve ...

Soft materials and polymers are ubiquitous in our lives and form the basis of many advances in medicine, sustainability, manufacturing, and clean water access. What makes these materials unique is ...

A research group has developed a new design for the electrolytes used in fuel cells. The material complies with environmental regulations and demonstrates moderate conductivity in harsh conditions, ...

Interestingly, this attractive phenomenon only occurs when the D-A-type donor polymer was blended with an insulating material ...

A team of scientists has created a new shape-changing polymer that could transform how future soft materials are constructed.

Researchers at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a revolutionary polymer ...

Led by scientists from Berkeley Lab, the experiment used an innovative set of machine-learning models to discover the highly ...