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Polymer Science
The Softer Side of Robots
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Improving Medical Textiles Using Polymers
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Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize Symposium
William F. DeGrado receives the Murray Goodman Memorial Prize at the ACS Spring National meeting 2018.
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Two novel quinoidal conjugated polymers are synthesized for organic field-effect transistors with superior device performance.
In Remembrance of Prof. Hans-Joachim Cantow
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Joachim Cantow: March 2nd, 1923–May 30th, 2018
Polymer Networks Give Cholesteric Liquid Crystals the Creeps
Polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals (PSCLCs) respond to electric fields in a time-dependent manner that resembles creep behavior in mechanically deformed polymers.
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