The Marine Corps is currently negotiating an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with Mississippi-based defense contractor MAC LLC to evaluate and test the company's lightweight MK 323 ...

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.

With rapid advances in high-throughput computing, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, polymer informatics is emerging as a promising tool to ensure breakthrough ...

Engineers at Battelle have used their knowledge of materials science, chemistry, physics, and polymer processing to develop a pattern-transfer technique used to fabricate specialized microfeatured ...

The Marine Corps has inked a $10 million contract with ammunition-maker MAC LLC for new lightweight polymer machine-gun ammunition, a major step forward in an effort to lighten Marines' battlefield ...

Machine learning, a tool increasingly used for the discovery and design of new materials, has now been adopted by researchers to design polymer brush films with desirable protein adsorption properties ...

Young woman picking up her smashed mobile phone after dropping it on the cement paving of the sidewalk showing the shattered display to the camera When trying to invent an adhesive, Yu Yanagisawa at ...

A single laundry load containing synthetic clothing can release thousands of plastic microfibers from nylon, acrylic and polyester materials. Lab testing of an SA-made washing machine filter at ...

Polymer brush films consists of monomer chains grown in close proximity on a substrate. The monomers, which look like “bristles” at the nanoscale, form a highly functional and versatile coating such ...