Think of a metal with paint on it, like an automobile or a pipeline carrying natural gas. The paint or polymer coating ...

Progress in Understanding Degradation Mechanisms and Improving Stability in Organic Photovoltaics, W.R. Mateker, M.D. McGehee, Advanced Materials, 1603940 (2016) Assessing the Stability of High ...

Understanding polymer degradation is critical for numerous applications—to uphold and extend polymer lifespan, deliberately design materials that degrade over time for purposes like medical implants ...

Carbon fibre composites are exceptionally strong and lightweight, making them preferred materials in many industries. But the ...

New research shows that silanized hexagonal boron nitride boosts the mechanical, thermal, and barrier properties of biodegradable chitosan films for food packaging and biomedical use.

This book is the first to deal with the important topic of the fire behaviour of fibre reinforced polymer composite materials ... on the behaviour of composites in a fire, including thermal ...

Traditional recycling fails to capture the value in discarded plastics because it reuses polymers that become less valuable ...

Instead, it points to a promising new strategy for engineering polymer composites with ultrahigh thermal conductivity. The study was led by UMass Amherst with collaborators from Massachusetts ...

Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to ...

A group of researchers led by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany and China’s Henan University investigated repeated thermal stress cycles, reflecting diurnal cycles, on the degradation of ...