Organic electronics promise flexible displays, low-cost sensors and printable circuits, but their performance still hinges on a stubbornly difficult problem: getting fragile small molecules to ...

A dual cross-linked magnetic polymer solves the fundamental trade-off limiting soft artificial muscles, achieving unprecedented combinations of stretchability, force output, and shape-programming ...

Polymeric membranes are widely used in separation technologies due to their low cost and easily scalable fabrication. However, unlike inorganic nanoporous materials such as metal-organic frameworks ...

With help from a novel cross-linking molecule, MIT chemists have shown they can substantially improve the ballistic impact resistance of common polymers, including polystyrene and a type of rubber ...

The two different types of polymer architectures with dynamic bonds at crosslink points. The world is filled with a myriad of sounds and vibrations—the gentle tones of a piano drifting down the hall, ...

MIT chemists have achieved a breakthrough in polymer science that could transform everyday plastics from brittle to bulletproof, using a counterintuitive approach that makes materials stronger by ...

Chemists in Thailand and Japan have unveiled a new kind of recyclable catalyst that could help solve one of the most stubborn ...

The world is filled with a myriad of sounds and vibrations -- the gentle tones of a piano drifting down the hall, the relaxing purr of a cat laying on your chest, the annoying hum of the office lights ...