Polymer degradation occurs when polymeric materials break down over time and lose their physical attributes due to environmental influences like heat, light, chemicals, or mechanical stress.

A common hospital bacterium can eat plastic in sutures and stents, making infections harder to control and medical gear ...

Progress in Understanding Degradation Mechanisms and Improving Stability in Organic Photovoltaics, W.R. Mateker, M.D. McGehee, Advanced Materials, 1603940 (2016) Assessing the Stability of High ...

Clearly, focus needs to be placed on this point to reduce the amount of micro and nano plastics created by normal polymer degradation.

This was exactly what we measured! Further, we could successfully extend this combined approach of using HPP-EIS to measure the rate of degradation of a polymer coating on a thin layer of ...

Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and ...

Polymer additives play a critical role in the processing and performance of polymer materials. These additives are substances included in the polymer matrix during manufacturing to modify the material ...

Furthermore, the team proposed strategies to suppress the surface degradation of perovskite materials. They found that coating nanocrystal surfaces with ligands or hydrophobic polymers that form ...

After a heart attack, this process of degradation has to be stopped so that tissues can heal better. The protein-like polymer, or PLP, platform is made from a polymer that mimics Nrf2. Once ...

After a heart attack, this process of degradation has to be stopped so that tissues can health better. The protein-like polymer, or PLP, platform is made from a polymer that mimics Nrf2.