(Nanowerk News) Researchers have analysed the properties of an organic polymer with potential applications in flexible electronics and uncovered variations in hardness at the nanoscale, the first time ...

A research team has developed a next-generation display core material with excellent stretchability and superior color reproduction. The team developed a high-performance color-conversion layer that ...

The first observation of the photovoltaic effect in a liquid cell was in the 1800s. It took a long time before the development of Schottky barrier devices and p–n junction devices produced the ...

Researchers in Israel have successfully combined III-V semiconductors with conjugated polymers to give an efficient organic light-emitting diode (OLED) that emits in the near-infrared (Science 295 ...

Conducting polymers have emerged as a pivotal class of materials for advanced optoelectronic applications owing to their tunable molecular structure, ...

The structure of semi-crystalline polymers largely depends on how strongly their molecular chains are entangled. Following numerous experiments, researchers developed a new model to predict the ...

Polymer scientists are making continuous efforts to manufacture products with appropriate characteristics for specific applications. The polymer's properties can be altered by tweaking the molecular ...

A group lead by Prof. Yang Liu from Huazhong University of Science and Technology has created a new type of "upgraded" ...