Polymer coatings may damage iron artifacts Coatings intended to preserve artifacts may trigger a cycle of corrosion as they age by Rachel Brazil, special to C&EN April 23, 2025 ...

Polymer coatings, including acrylic resins, are commonly used to protect metal artifacts from long-term exposure to light, heat, oxygen and humidity. The coatings are in many ways ideal for this ...

Polymer chains in the amorphous chain are immobilized in non-equilibrium positions. Compared to the material’s stable state, the positions of the polymer chains in this state possess high enthalpy ...

Polymer Testing (2020). [3] Insights for lifetime predictions of O‐ring seals from five‐year long‐term aging tests. Polymer Degradation and Stability (2020).

What if a complex material could reshape itself in response to a simple chemical signal? A team of physicists from the ...

Stanford researchers explore a novel avenue of material design using advanced computer simulations to virtually modify the real-world inner structures of promising new polymers.

This aging issue has been addressed before regarding film resistors. Applying Arrhenius’ Law to this capacitor situation, we can estimate as follows: Lifetime = (Lifetime at Max. Temperature) * 2^ ( ...

Scientists often seek new materials derived from polymers. Rather than starting a polymer search from scratch, they save time ...

OLEDs are polymer-based LEDs, and they have replaced Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) for TVs and other consumer products significantly recently. Our Lightwave polymers are different, but they are ...

The optical transparency of a film coated with 5% CuO NPs was 98%. Next, they tested the aging of polymer NP solution.

Unexpected Damage on Metal Artifacts Triggered by the Hazardous Interfacial Interaction from Aging of Polymer Coatings. ACS Central Science, 2025; DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c00067 ...