Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted and Ohio Department of Development Director Lydia Mihalik visited the Greater Akron Chamber on Thursday to announce $31.25 million in state funding for the ...

AKRON, Ohio — Polymers are in everything. The rubber in tires, the plastic in medical devices, even fabric and electronics. "With the creation of the Polymer Innovation Hub, Akron will be where the ...

Hans Dorfi has been chosen to become executive director and chief innovation officer of the Polymer Industry Cluster, housed at the Greater Akron Chamber, effective July 7. "I've always focused on ...

3D printing, an additive manufacturing (AM) technique, has the potential to revolutionize how we produce objects that we want and need in the modern world. Among other developments, innovations in ...

Peak Nano has disclosed plans to develop nanolayered biodegradable polymer films for food, beverage, and medical packaging.

Five new projects will receive funding as part of the Polymer Industry Cluster’s (PIC) Greater Akron Polymer Innovation Hub. The new projects join the inaugural Synthe6 Materials Accelerator cohort in ...

Polymer chemistry is transforming industries, from sustainable materials to biomedicine. Over his decades as a professor of materials, chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, Craig Hawker’s ...

The Greater Akron region will soon be home to a $41.65 million "innovation hub" focused on the research and development of polymer science, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and other state officials announced ...

A few polymer-related innovations are among the finalists for the 28th annual Automotive News PACE Awards. DuPont is a finalist for a high damping nylon 6/6 that helps to minimize audible noise from ...

A persistent challenge in research and development (R&D) is the "Valley of Death", which illustrates the critical gap between basic research and the commercialization of a product or technology. This ...

In a recent review published in Micromachines, researchers from Spain and Portugal highlighted the synergistic combination of shape-memory polymers (SMP) with carbon nanotubes (CNT) to enhance ...