par Frédéric PELASCINI | 12 Août 2018 | Actualités
Airy, Airier, Aerogel. Until now, brittleness has limited the practical application of these delicate solids, which consist almost entirely of air-filled pores. This may now change: In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Japanese researchers have now introduced extremely...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 12 Août 2018 | Actualités
When jewelers create a necklace, they control the order and number of each bead or jewel they use to form a desired pattern. It’s been challenging for scientists to do the same thing when designing polymers—until now. In ACS Central Science, researchers report a...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 5 Août 2018 | Actualités
A few commercially available reagents and a little heat are all that’s needed to make a polymeric material that’s easily processed, highly stretchable, self-healing, and sticky, according to a study (Sci. Adv. 2018, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat8192). The polymer may prove...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 5 Août 2018 | Actualités
Dyes are widely used in industries such as textiles, cosmetics, food processing, papermaking and plastics. Globally, we produce about 700,000 metric tons—the weight of two Empire State Buildings—of dye each year to color our clothing, eye shadow, toys and vending...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 5 Août 2018 | Offres d'emploi
Applications are invited for a lectureship in Polymer Chemistry to join the world leading School of Chemistry at the University in Glasgow, UK. The lectureships will be associated within Complex Chemical Systems and contribute towards our vision in this area. The...
