Plastic trash lining a mountain trail might not seem like the start of a chemistry breakthrough, but for Yuwei Gu, it was.

Researchers describe a new polymer structure called a bilayer-folded mesophase that has been discovered through a random copolymer sequence. Polymers, large molecules made up of repeating smaller ...

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have developed a polymerization technology that enables the synthesis of degradable ...

Polymers are macromolecules composed of simpler repeating structural units linked together by covalent bonds. Natural polymers exist in nature as biomolecules and compounds that make up the body of ...

Crustacean and seaweed materials combined in a unique way could provide a sustainable alternative to plastic films. Materials with enhanced structure derived from crustaceans and seaweed could be part ...

Rutgers Chemist Yuwei Gu (at left) and graduate student Shaozheng Yin employ a gel permeation chromatography machine to measure the size of polymers and how they break down. Yuwei Gu was hiking ...

While natural polymers, including starches and cellulose, are still commonly used in biomedical research, the utilization of synthetic biodegradable polymers in pharmaceutical and tissue-engineering ...

The method of fabricating structures and devices at the nanoscale, known as nanofabrication, has resulted in major developments in several fields, such as electronics, medicine, and materials science.

Award-winning associate professor Emily Pentzer, Editor-in-Chief of RSC Applied Polymers, shares advice for authors.

What is Polymer-Based Drug Delivery? Polymer drug delivery uses a device or a formulation that facilitates the incorporation of a therapeutic substance in the body. Polymers are used extensively for ...