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Chemistry World
September 13, 2013
Polly Wilson
Polymer regenerates all by itself Self-healing polymers that can spontaneously achieve quantitative healing in the absence of a catalyst have never been reported before, until now. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
September 2005
David Bradley
Nano Surprise A surprising mechanism by which polymers form nanocomposite particles could provide researchers with a new tool for controlling the growth of such materials. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 30, 2014
James Urquhart
Underwater self-healing polymer mimics mussels A common acrylic polymer used in biomedical applications and as a substitute for glass has been given the ability to completely self-heal underwater by US researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 14, 2010
Simon Hadlington
Artificial skin gets touchy New ways of incorporating pressure sensors into large, flexible surfaces which could one day provide robots or people fitted with artificial hands with a delicate sense of touch mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 17, 2013
Tim Wogan
Self-healing battery cracks anode fracturing problem US researchers have created battery anodes that heal themselves after they fracture, substantially prolonging battery life. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 11, 2009
Tom Bond
Just heat and heal A polymer system based on weak, reversible bonds that can heal itself when heated has been created by UK and US chemists. The new polymers could be further developed and used in the aerospace and other industries, say the researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 4, 2006
Richard Van Noorden
Hydrogen Gets Promiscuous Hydrogen is a more promiscuous element than chemists have appreciated: it can form up to six strong chemical bonds in some solids, researchers report. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 12, 2012
Simon Hadlington
Composites Reinforced in 3D A method that uses magnetic fields to align tiny structural elements within a polymer matrix has been developed by scientists in Switzerland. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 3, 2014
Jennifer Newton
Assessing covalency in the hydrogen bond zoo Worried that the concept of hydrogen bonding has been getting fuzzier over time, scientists in Germany have sought a fresh look at the very nature of these bonds, and how much covalency they involve. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd
Sensitive Synthetic Skin in the Works for Prosthetic Arms Carbon nanotubes key to making synthetic skin that lets artificial limbs sense heat and touch. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 11, 2007
Simon Hadlington
Polymer, Heal Thyself Researchers have taken a leaf out of nature's book to develop a polymer-based system that can heal itself when it becomes damaged. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 2, 2013
Hayley Birch
Sound solution to nanoparticle handling problems Researchers are using ultrasound to bond nanoparticles -- essentially sticking together particles too small to be seen with sounds too high-pitched to be heard. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 24, 2010
Hayley Birch
The key to colloid assembly US researchers have a developed a simple lock-and-key type mechanism that drives the self-assembly of colloid particles. They say their work offers a new approach for building tiny machines with movable parts. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 25, 2013
Jon Cartwright
Crystals of polystyrene Chemists in Japan and Italy have created a polymer-based material that has a crystalline structure. The material, which achieves its crystallinity with crosslinks between its polymer chains, is expected to have a high mechanical strength. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 15, 2015
Aurora Walshe
Fog-free film doesn't dare to glare Scientists in China have built a thin film that retains its antifogging properties even under an antireflective coating. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
September 22, 2004
Plastics Ease Nanotube Circuits Researchers have devised a way to make a random, self-assembled network of carbon nanotubes embedded in polymer that preserves the nanotubes' electrical conductivity and is suitable for thermal printing processes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 11, 2009
Phillip Broadwith
Building nano-scale electronic contacts An international team of researchers has discovered a way of firmly 'welding' carbon nanotubes to metal particles that could lead to new nano-scale electronic contacts. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 8, 2014
Tim Wogan
Polymer sets new self-healing record A new self-healing polymer that can repair holes far larger than any material before -- up to 3cm wide -- has been unveiled by US researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 4, 2007
Jonathan Edwards
Transparent Film with Strength of Steel Scientists have created a transparent material with the strength and stiffness of body armor by layering nanoplates of clay between a common polymer. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 13, 2006
Katharine Sanderson
Storing up High Hopes for Hydrogen Economy Polymer scientists have joined the race to store hydrogen as fuel. Their breakthrough could help make the hydrogen economy a reality, they claim. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 5, 2006
Michael Gross
Hydrogen Generation Mimics Photosynthesis Hydrogen is often touted as an environmentally-friendly fuel -- but the gas is only as clean as the method used to make it. Now, however, scientists have invented a solar-powered method for splitting water which they claim is the most efficient to date. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 25, 2013
David Bradley
Hydrogen bond under the microscope Scientists in Japan have designed a scanning tunnelling microscope tip that allowed them to measure electron transfer across a single hydrogen bond. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 9, 2011
Laura Howes
Radical Approach to Self-Healing Materials Japanese chemists have made a covalently cross-linked gel that can repair itself simply by bringing the broken surface together. The new material can heal itself even after damaged surfaces have been kept apart for as long as five days. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 8, 2013
Cara E Sutton
Coming unstuck with DNA A DNA-based glue has been developed by scientists at the University of Illinois, US. The adhesive uses DNA base pair mimics that bind to each other more strongly than their natural counterparts and may lead to glues far more powerful than Super Glue. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 2, 2010
Hayley Birch
Nanoparticle detector promises fast virus identification The technique, developed by US researchers, can discriminate between different viruses and is sensitive enough to detect the presence of a single virus particle. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 2, 2012
Andrea McGhee
Nanowires heading in the right direction Scientists in Switzerland have controlled the supramolecular self-assembly of polymers to form nanofibrils that could be used as organic nanowires in electronic devices. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 11, 2007
Jonathan Edwards
'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 26, 2015
Osman Mohamed
Single catalyst simplifies water splitting Scientists in Switzerland have shown that a nickel catalyst, capable of hydrogen evolution, can also stably generate oxygen at low overpotentials in alkaline solution. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 2, 2009
Matt Wilkinson
Urine turned into hydrogen fuel US researchers have developed an efficient way of producing hydrogen from urine - a feat that could not only fuel the cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 28, 2010
Mike Brown
Producing hydrogen from sea water A new catalyst that generates hydrogen from sea water has been developed by scientists in the US. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 18, 2013
Emma Stoye
Flexible electronics boost with stretchiest conductor ever made US researchers have made the stretchiest electrical conductor yet using gold nanoparticles embedded in an elastic polymer. The new material can stretch to over five times its size while still conducting well enough to power small devices. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 24, 2012
Rachel Cooper
Light speeds up new cell growth Scientists from Singapore have combined a photovoltaic polymer with a biocompatible polymer to make a nanofiber-based scaffold that can grow cells for skin regeneration. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 10, 2011
Laura Howes
Quantum tunnelling creates the 'wrong' molecule Protons takes a quantum leap in carbene reaction to give chemists a surprise mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
October 22, 2003
Process prints nanoparticles Researchers have coaxed tiny particles of gold, silver and carbon to assemble into patterns on silicon wafers over areas as large as a square centimeter by using electrical charge patterns to attract and position the nanoparticles. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 9, 2007
Richard Van Noorden
A Nanotech Solution to Wrinkled Skin Researchers who have discovered that nanoparticles prevent thin polymer films from buckling say their concept could be applied to stop human skin wrinkling too. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 31, 2013
Charlie Quigg
Splitting the sea Scientists in Australia are closer to harvesting hydrogen from two of the most abundant and naturally occurring resources in our environment -- seawater and sunlight. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 14, 2013
Andy Extance
Split water splitting raises green hydrogen hopes UK scientists say that they have developed the first widely-useable electrolysis system that splits water and releases hydrogen and oxygen in separate stages. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
September 2007
David Bradley
Fire Resistant Paint A way to toughen up the latex particles used to make emulsion paints has been developed by chemists. The approach involves adding tiny slivers of clay armor to make the particles more hard wearing and fire resistant. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 20, 2008
Michael Gross
Rubber That Heals Itself Chemists in France have made a new, rubber-like material that can be repaired simply by pressing cut or broken pieces together at room temperature. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
March 2005
David Bradley
Lighting-up Time for Porphyrin Nanotubes Researchers have constructed nanotubes from nature's light traps, the porphyrins, to make a system that will use sunlight to split water in a process closely related to photosynthesis, potentially enabling a solar hydrogen-based economy. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 28, 2011
Laura Howes
Polymer collapses in a flash Researchers in the Netherlands have created a polymer that folds up like a protein on exposure to light. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 30, 2011
Simon Hadlington
Solving a Tangled Polymer Problem Being able to predict how polymer chain interact could help to produce plastics with tailor made properties. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 12, 2013
Emma Stoye
Cutting edge chemistry in 2013 What discoveries caused the biggest buzz in chemistry labs in 2013? mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 27, 2014
Simon Hadlington
Unusual H-bond patterns revealed in single molecule image Researchers in the US have used a scanning tunnelling microscope to produce the latest images of structure and bonding in a single molecule, by sensing the molecule's local potential energy landscape. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
Issue 57
David Bradley
Smart Materials Self Repair Dumb materials succumb to rust, but smart materials might be able to heal themselves, thanks to researchers in Europe. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
February 25, 2004
Nanotubes boost shape recovery Researchers have mixed carbon nanotubes with polymer to make a plastic that is good at springing back into shape when heated. The shape memory polymers could be used in practical applications in five years, according to the researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 30, 2012
Simon Hadlington
Record proton conductivity claim withdrawn US chemists have withdrawn a claim that they created a crystalline nanowire that can conduct protons at world record speeds after other researchers, and subsequently they themselves, failed to reproduce the results. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 27, 2012
Erica Wise
Unlocking the mysteries of ice The unusual properties of ice under compression are due to Coulomb repulsion between bonding and non-bonding electron pairs, say scientists from Singapore and China. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 20, 2015
Isobel Marr
Membrane-less electrolyser set to disrupt water splitting Researchers in Switzerland have side-stepped membrane-cost issues getting in the way of sustainable water-splitting by designing a device that does without a membrane. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 16, 2014
Tim Wogan
New thermoset plastics simple to recycle Thermosetting polymers that can be easily recycled have been developed by an international team of researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles