The shearing of fluids—meaning the sliding of fluid layers over each other under shear forces—is an important concept in nature and in rheology, the science that studies the flow behavior of matter, ...

Semicrystalline polymers consist of alternating regions of ordered crystalline lamellae and disordered amorphous domains. Under mechanical, thermal or shock loading, deformation arises from a complex ...

A research group led by Dr. Toru Ube at Chuo University enabled 3D-selective deformation of “photomobile polymer materials” with the aid of two-photon absorption processes. Spatial selectivity of ...

Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is a non-destructive technique for probing the organisation of polymers at nanometre to micrometre length scales. By measuring the intensity of X-rays scattered at ...

An international research team is attracting the attention of experts in the field with computational results on the behavior of ring polymers under shear forces: They showed that for the simplest ...

An international research team is attracting the attention of experts in the field with computational results on the behavior of ring polymers under shear forces: Reyhaneh Farimani, University of ...