The applicability and service time of polymer details working in various media are limited by the degradation of their physical and mechanical properties. From the structural point of view the weakest places strongly affected by ageing are the surface and boundary regions of the crystallites. If a material is subjected to high-strain deformation, it deforms permanently (plastic deformation) and ultimately fails. For sufficiently low stresses and strains, the polymeric material behaves as a linear elastic solid. The point where the behaviour starts to be non-linear is called the proportional limit. The local maximum in the stress-strain curve is called the yield point and indicates the permanent deformation. The corresponding stress and elongation are called ...
Over the last few years, the chances of creating new conducting polymers with the help of machine learning have caught the attention of many researchers in the field of chemistry. Now, a team of researchers has discovered a new kind of polymer which contains high thermal conductivity and can be beneficial to the 5G mobile communication technologies. Researcher Ryo Yoshida said that many aspects remain to be explored, such as “training” computational systems to work with limited data by adding more suitable descriptors. He added, “ML for polymer or soft material design is a challenging but promising field as these materials have properties that differ from metals and ceramics, and are not yet fully predicted by the existing theories.” This ...
PolymPart: Interest in high-spin organic materials is driven by opportunities to enable far-reaching fundamental science and develop technologies that integrate light element spin, magnetic, and quantum functionalities. Although extensively studied, the intrinsic instability of these materials complicates synthesis and precludes an understanding of how fundamental properties associated with the nature of the chemical bond and electron pairing in organic materials systems manifest in practical applications. Here, we demonstrate a conjugated polymer semiconductor, based on alternating cyclopentadithiophene and thiadiazoloquinoxaline units, that is a ground-state triplet in its neutral form. Electron paramagnetic resonance and magnetic susceptibility ...
