The global smart polymers market, valued at US$5.11 billion in 2024, is set to grow to US$7.67 billion by 2030, driven by a significant surge in demand across industries like biomedical, automotive, ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Smart Polymers Market 2023-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global Smart Polymers Market was valued at $23.80 Billion in 2023 ...

Tozaro, based in Bedford, U.K., formed a technical advisory board (TAB) to provide strategic guidance around commercialization and further development of the company’s smart polymer platform for ...

New research suggests that thermal switching in smart polymer solutions may depend less on polymer conformation than previously assumed, and more on their nanoscopic environment. (Nanowerk News) A ...

Plastics, which are polymeric materials composed of long chains of small molecules called monomers, are widely used in everyday life and industry due to their lightweight, good strength and ...

Researchers at Westlake University have disclosed a two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked polymer (MIP) that mimics medieval chainmail at the molecular scale. This micrometer-scale 2D material ...

Fibrous materials are playing an increasingly vital role in various applications, including textiles, nonwoven materials, composite structures, and more. Polymeric nanofibers represent an exciting new ...

Smart textiles from liquid crystal elastomer fibers can now be melted down and reknitted with nearly identical shape-shifting performance.

Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have developed a new class of materials with wide-ranging potential - from medicine and electronics to optics - where cleanliness, precision, and ...

Stimulus sensitivity: They contain specific responsive groups that react to external triggers such as heat, light, mechanical stress, electric and magnetic fields, gases, pH, or particular chemicals.

Scientists have created a novel thermoresponsive polymer by adding divalent cations to polymers and water solvents. They also succeeded in controlling thermoresponsive properties by changing the type ...