If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

Soft robots, medical devices, and wearable devices have permeated our daily lives. KAIST researchers have developed a fluid switch using ionic polymer artificial muscles that operates at ultra-low ...

As wearable electronics proliferate, the demand for flexible, safe, and high-performance power sources has never been greater. Fiber-shaped energy-storage devices (FSESDs) are particularly attractive ...

As anyone who extrudes plastic noodles knows, the glass transition temperature of a material is a bit misleading; polymers gradually transition between a glass and a liquid across a range of ...

Electrochemical processes in devices like solar cells, fuel cells, lithium batteries, and water desalination systems rely on the safe, efficient, and robust transport of anions and cations between ...

Ater yesterday, here is another story about using plastics as a power source. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are using ionic polymers immersed in a river to generate 'clean' electricity ...

BORDENTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It is generally assumed that solid polymer electrolytes have poor ionic conductivity at room temperature. Nuvvon has turned this notion on its head. Third-party ...

A new thermodynamic design links ion movement and concentration to energy output, creating soft polymer films that generate steady electrical power from tiny temperature differences such as body heat.

A new technical paper titled “Non-equilibrium transport in polymer mixed ionic–electronic conductors at ultrahigh charge densities” was published by researchers at Cambridge University, Grenoble Alpes ...