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Research
Chemists borrow biological instrument to sort polymer beads by shape

2018-12-17T15:27:00Z

Cell sorting machine discriminates between spherical, disc-shaped and ellipsoidal polystyrene particles
News
Chemists Rosalind Franklin and Dorothy Hodgkin in the running for new face of £50 note

2018-11-28T14:30:00Z

Other favourites to adorn the new polymer note are Stephen Hawking, Ada Lovelace and Margaret Thatcher
Podcast
Epoxies

2018-11-16T14:25:00Z

Epoxies – including hard-wearing resins and strong adhesives – can be found almost everywhere, from your household white goods to the Large Hadron Collider
Research
Cool MOF could make for greener air con

2018-10-31T11:54:00Z

A porous material could unlock water’s cooling potential in energy-efficient fridges and air conditioners
Research
Used cooking oil helps weed out fertiliser pollution

2018-10-26T09:57:00Z

Inverse vulcanisation used to turn waste canola oil into controlled-release fertiliser
Research
Alarm raised over microplastics in human faeces in first of its kind study

2018-10-23T09:30:00Z

Nine different types of microplastic found in samples across the world could pose health risk
Research
Paint achieves seemingly impossible by cooling buildings in direct sun

2018-09-27T19:00:00Z

Coating offers a route to zero-carbon air conditioning
Research
Red–blue light switch pushes equilibrium both ways

2018-08-20T14:30:00Z

Switchable reaction cycle drives bond-making or breaking depending on light colour
Research
Carbon rings weaved into solvent-cleaning mesh

2018-07-25T14:32:00Z

Tiny pores in conjugated carbon network cleanse organic solvents of impurities
Research
Conjugated polymers sequenced by eye under the microscope

2018-06-16T08:00:00Z

Atomic resolution of molecules – warts and all – can help in the development and design of electronics materials
Research
Surgical sensor tracks healing and then simply fades away

2018-05-16T13:58:00Z

Exceptionally sensitive biodegradable implant can sense strain and pressure on recovering tendons
Research
New front opened for greener high-performance polymers

2018-05-10T11:56:00Z

Energy needed to make composite similar to those in Boeing’s Dreamliner cut by nine orders of magnitude
Research
Turing patterned membrane takes on water purification

2018-05-04T09:34:00Z

Mathematician Alan Turing’s sole chemistry paper inspires self-assembling spotted and striped polymer structures
Research
Sniffing out museums' decaying plastic artefacts

2018-02-13T13:31:00Z

Analysing volatile compounds may help museums protect old celluloid film and other polymer heritage items
Research
Skin-mimic material is as tough as teeth

2018-02-06T11:50:00Z

Self-healing material combines best of skin’s properties
Research
Unpicking a unique molecular network

2018-01-26T09:30:00Z

Computational modelling informs self-assembly solution
Research
Longest molecular chain paves way to interlocked polymers

2017-12-04T10:00:00Z

Polymers made of mechanically interlocked molecules could make for strong but flexible materials
News
Conventions governing polymers' names revised

2017-11-14T14:31:00Z

Polymer nomenclature based on structure of repeating unit aims to iron out inconsistencies
Podcast
Polybutene

2017-11-09T14:24:00Z

Kit Chapman discovers the compound that blighted Nixon’s second presidential inauguration by littering the route with dead pigeons
Research
Inorganic polystyrene gives old material a new backbone

2017-11-07T11:02:00Z

New catalytic route opens the door to polymers made from boron and nitrogen