ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Intelligent nanostructures that report on their environment by changing color from blue to fluorescent red under mechanical, chemical, or thermal stress have been created by ...

Due to their optoelectronic properties, conjugated polymers play a crucial role in flexible electronics, organic light-emitting technology, and organic photovoltaics. These specialty polymers, however ...

How do nanostructures keep plastics transparent while improving toughness and light control? PMMA, polycarbonate, COC ...

Nanostructured polymers are of significant interests from lithography to biomedical applications. However, polymer based micro- and nanostructures are subject to a variety of ever-present ...

Scientists solve a long-standing block copolymer research conundrum through polymer chain end modifications. The study garners substantial academic attention by achieving tangible manifestations of ...

Colour structures: microscope image of individual RGB subpixels forming an image under bright reflective illumination. (Courtesy; Andreas Dahlin/Xiong 2021 Advanced Materials 2103217) Video-speed ...

Polymers and nanostructured polymer materials have a vast number of beneficial properties that enable them to be used in many applications and industries. It has recently emerged that nanostructured ...

What is Capillary Force Lithography? Capillary Force Lithography (CFL) is a versatile and cost-effective technique for patterning surfaces at the nanoscale. It leverages the capillary forces arising ...