While biomechanically suitable for cardiovascular, urological, and hernia repair applications, many polymers fail because of the body's inflammatory and thrombogenic response. But now HIstogen Inc.

Polymers are complex materials with flexible forms, widely varied compositions, and properties that change as the polymers interact with their environment over time. Structurally, polymers are large ...

Polymer matrix composites (PMCs) are made by reinforcing a polymer-based matrix with glass, carbon, or aramid fibers. PMCs are classified into thermosetting and thermoplastic resins based on the type ...

Left to right: Postdoctoral researcher Zhenchuang Xu, postdoctoral researcher Yuting Zhou, and chemistry professor Jeffrey S. Moore. Source | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign To avoid their ...

TPC are available with unidirectional (UD), fabric and random mat reinforcement in various degrees of impregnation. Fully impregnated forms can be fabricated quickly into final parts but are stiff and ...

Most polymers don’t mix—and that’s the point. Polymer alloys succeed by engineering the interface: use thermodynamics to predict separation, processing to sculpt morphology, and compatibilizers to ...

Individuals from many disciplines confront the challenge to understand the full range of factors surrounding the evolution of micro- and macrostructure of a PMC during its lifetime in extreme ...