Even as perovskite solar cells gallop towards commercial applications, researchers are still tweaking the cells’ innards to ensure they have a long and productive life once they leave the lab. A team ...

Polymer thin-film optical cavities boost the magnetic sensing sensitivity of nanodiamond quantum sensors nearly fivefold ...

Film casting is a critical industrial process for the production of polymer films used in a wide range of applications, from energy storage membranes to packaging and coatings. Recent advances have ...

Organic solar cells have attracted much attention due to their light weight, flexibility and suitability for wearable applications. However, long-term device stability remains an obstacle to the full ...

A research team based in China and the United States has developed electroactive polymer zwitterions to modify zinc oxide interlayers in organic solar cells. Their work was found to passivate defects ...

Solid rocket motors (SRMs), extensively used in aerospace and missile systems, employ CFRP composites in motor casings due to their superior mechanical properties. However, the bonding interface ...

There is a large market for polymer films, with many millions of tons of film being produced every year. In the US alone, the market is worth around $20 billion. The industry concentrates on making ...

Researchers have devised a processing technique that can create transparent polythene film that can be stronger as aluminum but at a fraction of the weight, and which could be used use in glazing, ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say their polymer coating could be used to protect photovoltaic modules, due to its impermeability to gases. The team has demonstrated that a ...

Polymers are defined as materials consisting of macromolecules that are made up of small, regularly repeating smaller subunits. The coextrusion process is a manufacturing process that uses different ...

Research led by Professor Ton Peijs of WMG at the University of Warwick and Professor Cees Bastiaansen at Queen Mary University of London, has devised a processing technique that can create ...