Polymers and soft materials

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Mussel glue could inspire new surgical adhesives

Understanding how the mechanism by which mussels produce their glue

Researchers get in a tangle developing stiff and tough elastomers

By developing a way to highly entangle polymer chains, researchers have managed to produce an elastomer that is both stiff and tough.

New Special Issue focuses in on 3d printing developments in Concrete sector

Materials Today Physics - Hot Papers

Colloidal crystals lose color as the temperature rises

Colloidal crystals that mimic the nanostructure of opals can visibly and continuously document the temperature in the environment over a defined period.

New measurements reveal complex conductivity of carbon fibers

A new measurement technique has revealed that a single carbon fiber is more electrically conductive in the direction parallel to its length.

31st ICDCM 2021 Early Career Research Award Winner Announced

The 31st ICDCM 2021 Young Scholar Award Winners Announced

Cell-penetrating nanomaterial disrupts cancer cells

shape-changing nanomaterial kills non-small cell lung cancer cells and improves the efficacy of anticancer drug cisplatin