A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. Working with a type of polymer known as polyacrylate elastomers, the researchers found that they could increase the materials’ resistance to tearing up to tenfold,
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MIT engineers developed organic polymers that can efficiently convert signals from biological tissue into the electronic signals used in transistors. Certain electronics that integrate with the human body — a smartwatch that samples your sweat, for instance — work by converting the ion-based signals of biological tissue into the electron-based signals
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Perovskite semiconductors promise highly efficient and low-cost solar cells. However, the semi-organic material is very sensitive to temperature differences, which can quickly lead to fatigue damage in normal outdoor use. Adding a dipolar polymer compound to the precursor perovskite solution helps to counteract this. This has now been shown in a
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Chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised a method of synthesising polymers that can break down more readily in the body and the environment. The chemical reaction, ring-opening metathesis polymerisation (ROMP) has been utilised by scientist to build novel polymers for various uses, such as, nanofabrication, high-performance resins
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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has vowed to overhaul the department of development control to bring sanity to the building industry in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). (more…)
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The senate has expressed worry over the scarcity of lower denomination of Naira notes. Members of the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday expressed concerns over the scarcity of N5, N10, N20, N50, N100 and N200 in the country. The lawmakers noted that the scarcity poses a severe threat to the economy of
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