Two years after courses in polymer chemistry began to be offered at Virginia Tech, Paul J. Flory received the 1974 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his achievement in the physical chemistry of ...

If you look closely at a brick house you’ll notice something very peculiar. All the bricks are layered in a specific pattern. This helps make the house strong! In science we can see something similar ...

The Polymer Education Committee of the American Chemical Society offers annual awards for excellence to high school and junior high school science teachers who have introduced the study of polymer ...

Bring up plastics and everyone asks you if you’ve seen The Graduate. Yes, we’ve seen the future and indeed, it’s plastic. Antonio Molinari has class project experience working extensively with steel ...

All of us should know more about Ohio’s polymer industry. To get started, check out a new video produced by Jobs-Ohio: https://youtu.be/XuYIkvdAfZ0. The video ...

Dr. Phil Costanzo, a chemistry professor at Cal Poly, is the recipient of the James Flack Norris Award for outstanding teaching in chemistry by the American Chemical Society. A Cal Poly chemistry ...

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With rapid advances in high-throughput computing, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, polymer informatics is emerging as a promising tool to ensure breakthrough ...

Plastics News covers the business of the global plastics industry. We report news, gather data and deliver timely information that provides our readers with a competitive advantage.

The term smart polymer embraces a wide range of different compounds that can change their color, transparency or shape in response to their environment; they are smart because of their ability to ...