Hydrogen bonds, best known for holding water molecules and biological structures together, are now shown to play a powerful role in solar energy conversion. In a study published in National Science ...

MIT researchers have developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, raising the possibility that it could be used as a protective coating to prevent solar cells and ...

It is not easy to follow the interactions of large molecules with water in real time. But this can be easier to hear than to ...

Some polymers react to their environment with conformational changes: one of these is the polymer PNIPAM, short for poly(N-isopropylacrylamide). It is water-soluble below around 32 degrees Celsius, ...