At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate chip cookie—golden-brown, thick and chewy. Unfortunately, you don't know who made the cookie to get the recipe from, so you decide to recreate it. Using ...

The longest chains of the conductive polymer poly(p-phenylene; PPP) produced to date are just under one micrometer ...

Qitang Fan, J. Michael Gottfried et al., On-Surface Radical Ring-Opening Polymerisation Produces Ultra-Long Poly (p-phenylene) for Access to Nonbenzenoid Carbon Nanoribbons, Nature Chemistry (2026) ...

The rapid global transition toward sustainable and renewable energy systems is driving an urgent need for advanced materials that combine high efficiency, ...

Chemists grew the longest conductive polymer chains ever made on a surface, nearly one micrometer long, using a clean process that enables precise nanoribbons.

(Yicai) March 6 -- Chinese scientists have developed a new polymer thermoelectric film that significantly improves the ...

Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Freed’s scientific trajectory began early; he and his brother Jack, who himself would go on to ...

3D-printed guns have earned the nickname of “ghost guns”, as they are difficult to trace through standard firearms analysis. With law enforcement struggling to trace the source of seized ghost guns, ...

Kyushu University researchers have directly observed, for the first time, how individual polymers—chain-like molecules—behave when in contact with solid surfaces. Published in the Journal of the ...

The Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology Group (GNano) at the University of São Paulo's São Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC-USP) in Brazil has discovered a way to transform hydroxyapatite, a bioceramic ...

The humble 3D printer is an excellent prototyping tool, but their ability to make possibly untraceable firearms has raised safety concerns for many.