Over the past few decades, food packaging markets have captured the attention of researchers due to their direct impact on human health. Both metallic and nonmetallic materials find use in the food ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Smart Polymers Market 2023-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global Smart Polymers Market was valued at $23.80 Billion in 2023 ...

(Left) Closed-loop recycling process of the newly synthesized raw material (monomer).(Right) Selective raw materials recovery from mixed plastic waste. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and ...

Plastics, which are polymeric materials composed of long chains of small molecules called monomers, are widely used in everyday life and industry due to their lightweight, good strength and ...

Tozaro, based in Bedford, U.K., formed a technical advisory board (TAB) to provide strategic guidance around commercialization and further development of the company’s smart polymer platform for ...

Researchers have announced two major polymer science advances: a self-assembling polymer system that improves gene delivery safety and efficiency, and a chlorophyll-based supramolecular polymer that ...

A smart polymer developed by UC San Diego scientists can disassemble when hit by low-power near-infrared light, opening the door to new imaging techniques. (Image courtesy of American Chemical Society ...

Researchers at Westlake University have disclosed a two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked polymer (MIP) that mimics medieval chainmail at the molecular scale. This micrometer-scale 2D material ...

Early smart materials were typically amorphous polymers, hydrogels, or liquid crystalline systems with randomly distributed responsive groups, which limited response speed, energy efficiency, and the ...

When the polymer was subsequently exposed to enzymatic degradation, the QR pattern emerged as the degraded regions became visible. This work introduces a new molecular design principle for polymer ...