Polymer chemistry is transforming industries, from sustainable materials to biomedicine. Over his decades as a professor of materials, chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, Craig Hawker’s ...

A research team at Georgia Tech has built what it calls the first generative AI system purpose-built for polymer design, and the models have already produced a new dielectric material that held up ...

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a transformative tool in polymer science, enabling researchers to predict material properties and guide polymer design with unprecedented speed and precision.

The Synthe6 Materials Accelerator is supporting a new cohort of polymer and materials science startups through funding, ...

Digital technologies are redefining polymer research and instead of blindly sampling vast chemical space, generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) now enables data-driven molecular design. Join two ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a method to convert a commonly discarded ...

This year, Cheolmin Park, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University, was selected as the recipient ...

A recent study in Nature Communications explores a novel approach to self-healing in polymer glasses—using controlled oscillatory movements to boost molecular mobility and repair cracks. This ...

Faced with a budget shortfall, the University of Akron (UA) is proposing to merge its department of chemistry; department of chemical, biomolecular, and corrosion engineering; and School of Polymer ...

The 32nd biennial meeting of the Polymer Physics Group, PAPS 2026, will be held in Nottingham in September 2026. This event provides an opportunity for researchers from both academia and industry to ...