In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices—ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent ...

Polymers are the building blocks of living systems and the ... resulted in the development of many Aplastics@ and other polymeric materials and also stimulated research into the structure and ...

The UMass Amherst-led team is challenging the common belief that perfect fillers are the best choice for creating thermally conductive polymers. In the pursuit of developing next-generation materials ...

A study from UMass Amherst shows that defective fillers in polymers improve heat dissipation by 160 %, offering new insights ...

“Many highly crystalline substances are brittle, but our polymer has a regular, ordered structure yet is highly flexible ...

New research suggests that plastics made with fillers that contain defects may perform up to 160% better than those with ...

In a world increasingly aware of the environmental impact of fossil fuels, researchers are embarking on a venture to find ...

The diisocyanate structure has an important role in the phase separation behavior of hybrid materials, significantly affecting the properties of the final polymer. The molecular structure of the ...

In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices -- ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent at dissipating heat -- a team of researchers made a discovery: ...