The market for cooling fabrics is on the rise as the need for high-performance textiles in many applications, such as ...

Polymer synthesis, also called polymerization ... catalysts and mechanisms, the range of structures that can be generated and techniques for assessing the ATRP product, concluding with an overview ...

Heat shrink tubing is made of cross-linked polymers, which are polymers in which the monomer units are cross linked together ...

For more than two decades, the Ihara research group has been focusing on the development of new methods for polymer syntheses using diazocarbonyl compounds as monomers. They found that ...

Additionally, it will examine how force-induced bond scission can trigger additional chemical reactions to adaptively adjust the polymer structures for on-demand functions. These force-activated ...

including a nylon teabag purchased from Amazon, a polypropylene teabag from AliExpress, and another with an unspecified filter polymer bought from a supermarket. They discovered that each type of ...

The tea bags used for the research were made from the polymers nylon-6, polypropylene and cellulose ... nano-sized particles and nanofilamentous structures are released, which is an important ...

The nylon-6 teabags typically released 8.18 million particles per milliliter ... nucleus – a useful discovery in terms of assessing the impacts on health of the plastics now floating through our ...

Recent research from the Mutagenesis Group in the UAB Department of Genetics and Microbiology highlights how polymer-based tea bags release microplastics and nanoplastics ... These methods allowed the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said it will circulate limited quantities of its first Philippine polymer (FPP) banknote series starting today, with 70 to 90 million ...

Senior researchers Dr. Pankaj Sharma and Dr. Christopher Gibson say the Flinders polymer addresses these challenges with its unique physical structure that allows mechanical force to encode the data ...