Polymer chemist Athina Anastasaki talks about establishing her career, inroads into polymer recycling, and resilience in academia.
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Polymer chemist Athina Anastasaki talks about establishing her career, inroads into polymer recycling, and resilience in academia.
Chemist Hatice Mutlu applies zero-waste methods to create biodegradable polymers that can be used perpetually.
To bring down the cost of a conventional reaction, researchers are turning to green chemistry and wine to provide the right conditions.
Composers with the Multiverse Concert Series work with chemists to turn polymeric structures into musical works of art.
Polymer-based broad spectrum antivirals show activity against Zika, Ebola, HIV-1, the Herpes simplex virus, and now, SARS-CoV-2.
A shape-shifting polymer allows scientists to create a safer implantable device that results in less trauma upon insertion.
Researchers have used helical virus particles as chiral templates for growing polymers with magnetic properties.
Researchers create a new and elegant way of producing nanostructured microparticles, yielding a vibrant palette of colors from a single polymer brush.
Czech researchers developed self-propelled microrobots that decompose complex solid pollutants, such as single use and disposable textile fibers.
A new class of polymers to clean up mercury pollution that can be produced sustainably on a large scale from elemental sulfur and renewable plant oils.