In a new MIT study – in partnership with Purdue, Northwestern, and Duke universities – chemists have discovered that ...

Cross-linked rubber materials based on unsaturated hydrocarbon polymers, such as natural rubber, synthetic polyisoprene, and polybutadiene, are widely used in applications requiring elastic properties ...

Step-growth and chain-growth are two major families of chemical reactions that result in polymer networks with drastically different physical properties, often referred to as hyper-branched and ...

Polymers are composed of very large molecules formed by a combination of different monomers (smaller and simpler molecules), which can be natural or synthetic. Polymers are the basis of many ...