16-12-19 The study, published today in Nature Microbiology, holds promise for a new treatment method against antibiotic-resistant bacteria (commonly known as superbugs). The star-shaped structures, are short chains of proteins called peptide polymers, and we...
14-11-10 For much the same reason LCD televisions offer eye-popping performance, a thermomagnetic processing method developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can advance the performance of polymers. Polymers are used in cars, plan...
14-03-25 The experimental and numerical study of the behaviour of polymers in concentrated solutions is a line of research that is still highly active. In the past, it enabled us to understand why materials like rubber have certain elastic(弹性的) properti...
13-10-14 Polymers(聚合物,高分子) -- the essential component of plastics -- are found in countless commercial, medical, and industrial products. Polymers that are porous(多孔的) are called foam polymers and are especially useful because they combine ligh...
13-02-21 The base pairs that hold together two pieces of RNA, the older cousin of DNA, are some of the most important molecular interactions in living cells. Many scientists believe that these base pairs were part of life from the very beginning and that RNA...
12-11-21 Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have modified electrically-conductive polymers, commonly used in solar energy applications, to develop revolutionary polymer nanoparticles (PNs) for a medical application. When the nanoparticles are...
12-05-22 Proteins are widely used as drugs -- insulin for diabetics(糖尿病) is the best known example -- and as reagents(试剂) in research laboratories, but they react poorly to fluctuations in temperature and are known to degrade in storage. Because of...
10-02-01 Researchers have created self-healing polymers聚合物,高分子 that could extend the lifetime of automotive oils. These polymers are suitable to add to lubricants润滑剂 and could maintain the physical properties of engine oils for longer, they claim h...