To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Lei Zhu, professor of macromolecular science and engineering at Case School of Engineering, said, “In the past, ferroelectric polymers were mostly discovered.

A persistent driver is the demand for lightweight materials that retain mechanical integrity under thermal and chemical stress. High-performance polymers, exemplified by polyether ether ketone (PEEK), ...

Ford Motor Co. and its supplier partners have earned the prestigious Vehicle Engineering Team Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers' (SPE) Automotive Division for their work on the 2025 Ford ...

IC manufacturers are increasingly relying on intelligent data processing to prevent downtime, improve yields, and reduce scrap. They are integrating that with fault detection and classification (FDC) ...

A new technical paper titled “Material Needs and Measurement Challenges for Advanced Semiconductor Packaging: Understanding the Soft Side of Science” was published by researchers at the National ...

Rheological measurements are among the simplest and most informative ways to discover the dynamics of polymeric fluids and solids. Linear, or small amplitude, rheology gives a “fingerprint” of the ...

A ferroelectric polymer made without fluorine, a so-called forever chemical that can take centuries to break down in nature, has been developed by researchers at Case Western Reserve University. The ...

The global consulting firm says collecting and reprocessing more discarded plastic automotive components should be feasible. The company says two of the biggest opportunities to access more ...

AKRON, Ohio – The University of Akron is ranked No. 1 in the world for polymer science and plastics engineering, according to recent rankings from EduRank.org. The rankings are based on universities’ ...

Carson Bruns is working to lend chemists a hand—literally—by bringing collaborative robots into chemical wet labs. Bruns, an assistant professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical ...

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, ...