Polymers, such as plastics, are essential in many aspects of life and industry, from packaging and cars to medical devices and optic fibers. Their value comes from diverse properties that are ...

Lightweight, quiet, and low-maintenance, polymer parts might be just what a machine needs. Polymers as power transmission parts. There was a time when people sneered at “plastic gears” – and ...

By Identifying the Ideal Manufacturing Conditions, Machine Learning Reduces the Need for Expensive and Time-Consuming ExperimentationTSUKUBA, Japan, - (NewMediaWire) - December 3, 2024 - Polymers ...

Machine-learning-assisted discovery of polymers with high thermal conductivity using a molecular design algorithm. npj Computational Materials , 2019; 5 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41524-019-0203-2 Cite ...

Ribosomes are so good at their job that researchers want to harness them to make other polymers. If they could coax these protein-translation machines to use building blocks other than the amino ...

Robotic teams around the world are working on soft robots, because some situations call for a touch gentler than what a rigid machine can give. They can squish into tight locations for search-and ...

Throughout New England, those machines are put to work in the packaging, electronics, medical and automotive indus-tries, and as those manufacturers have become leaner, they’ve had more use for ...

Polymer Networks Make Better 3D Prints. 5 Comments . by: Al Williams. October 17, 2020. Title: Copy. Short Link: Copy. Biological machines such as human and animal bodies are quite incredible.

Polymers that change shape when heated could open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain, and strengthen spines. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing so-called ...

Machine learning could teach us how to make manufacturing of materials cleaner and more sustainable Nov 23, 2020 Machine learning enables optimal design of anti-biofouling polymer brush films ...