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Precise length and charge segmentation of billion-dalton supramolecular polymers

01/10/2026

DCMax - A novel Delayed Cmax Drug Delivery System for Improved Chronotherapy

29/09/2026 - This study evaluated the Delayed Cmax Drug Delivery System (DCMax), an erosion-based controlled- release formulation designed to delay peak plasma concentration (Cmax) and sustain drug release. The...

A new process turns plastic waste into gasoline and diesel fuel

21/09/2026 - Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a surprisingly simple way to turn polyethylene, the common plastic used in shopping bags and cutting boards, into gasoline and diesel-like...

This popular fermented food may help flush nanoplastics from the body

17/09/2026 - A kimchi-derived bacterium can bind to nanoplastics under gut-like conditions and may help carry them out of the body. In mice, the probiotic more than doubled the amount of nanoplastics detected in...

Assessing biological degradation of non-hydrolysable synthetic polymers

16/09/2026

Doublecortin mutation disrupts lattice-dependent proximity to reveal cytoskeletal networks in developing neurons

15/09/2026 - Doublecortin (DCX) is a microtubule-associated protein (MAP) required for neuronal migration and cortical development. However, DCX is not sufficient to direct these processes on its own. Instead,...

Spontaneous polarization in chemical vapor–deposited polymer films creates large electric fields

03/09/2026

Scientists turn tiny “defects” into a 5.5x heat transfer boost

23/08/2026 - Scientists have developed an ultrathin coating that could dramatically improve how efficiently heat is transferred during condensation. By turning tiny polymer structures once considered...

A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics of Polymers

- Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics extends polymer simulation beyond the scales accessible to all-atom (AA) methods, but bottom-up CG modeling is laborious. The CG resolution is a design choice,...

Integral Hilbert spaces and the dynamics of loop quantum cosmos

- Polymer quantization program applied in Loop Quantum Gravity/Cosmology leads to nonseparable Hilbert spaces. Commonly, one sidesteps this problem by singling out and working with a separable...

A Synthetically-accessible Universe of Chemically Recyclable Polymers

- Polymers synthesized via ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of cyclic monomers represent an important class of materials due to their chemical recyclability and possible insertion in several critical...

PolymerGPT: Multi-property Optimization with a Decoder-Based GPT Model for Generative Polymer Design

- Polymer property prediction and inverse generative design targeting desired properties are two crucial tasks in machine learning-assisted polymer design. While the former has received considerable...

Morphological Detection and Classification of Microplastics and Nanoplastics Emerged from Consumer Products by Deep Learning

- Plastic pollution presents an escalating global issue, impacting health and environmental systems, with micro- and nanoplastics found across mediums from potable water to air. Traditional methods for...

n-Type polymer layers enable efficient, scalable, and thermally stable perovskite solar modules

30/07/2026

Photocatalytic water splitting by 2D polymer with out-of-plane carrier flow

29/07/2026

A Monolithic Hand with Asymmetric Origami Bending and Dual-chamber Actuators

- The passive adaptability inherent in soft robotic hands affords them advantages in applications that require safe and compliant interaction. However, existing soft robotic hands often struggle to...

Writhe-Based Polymer Link Classification Using Machine Learning

- Unique and rapid classification of knots and links is an open mathematical problem that is relevant to a range of (bio)physical systems, including polymer melts, DNA, and proteins. In this paper, we...

Direction of ESCRT-III-dependent membrane bending emerges from bilayer asymmetry

24/07/2026 - In cells, ESCRT-III is unique in mediating fission of membrane necks from inside, a process called reverse-topology fission. Yet, in vitro, the complex primarily assembles outside membrane necks and...

Nuclear Quantum Effects as a Denoising Problem

- Nuclear quantum effects are rigorously captured by imaginary-time path integrals, which map the quantum Boltzmann distribution onto a ring polymer of classical replicas. Yet the nuclear masses, the...

Scalable Open-Source Visuotactile Sensor for 6-Axis Contact Wrench Estimation in Tensegrity Robots

- This paper presents a scalable, open-source visuotactile sensing system for tensegrity robots that enables six-axis wrench estimation and contact detection. The proposed endcap sensor integrates an...

Power from Potential: A Survey of Electrostatic Actuators for Haptics

- As haptic interfaces integrate more seamlessly into wearables and everyday environments, they increasingly require actuators that are soft, thin, silent, and energy efficient. However, conventional...