Polymer crystallinity exerts a profound influence on mechanical strength, thermal stability and chemical resistance, making its precise characterisation vital for materials design and process control.

A machine learning method developed by researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and other institutions accurately predicts liquid crystallinity of ...

For semi-crystalline polymers, the crystallinity rate is a key parameter which directly influences mechanical properties, such as mechanical resistance or stiffness, as well as thermal and gas barrier ...

The typical process of strain-induced crystallinity in common elastomers is below 20%, while natural rubber only achieves about 15% crystallinity when stretched to six times its initial length at room ...

But here’s the challenge: traditional QA/QC methods are often slow, hands-on, and destructive. They rely on solvent-based extraction or other time-consuming processes that are unable to keep up with ...

An image of a butterfly printed using a structural-color polymer. Credit: Dong Yang/Nat. Commun. The researchers based the model on block copolymers composed of ...