Herein, the extension of high-density polyethylene (PE) (HDPE) chains by formation of polypseudorotaxane structures with perpentylated pillar[5]arenes is reported. Melt mixing of polymeric chains of ...

For a long time, XRD has remained the gold standard method for material analysis. XRD is able to perform various analyses, ranging from phase identification and quantification for medium and highly ...

Why do glass and other amorphous materials deform more easily in some regions than in others? A research team from the University of Osaka, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

The semiconductor industry likes to have complete control over its production - and it can now work with one unknown less. Studies of glass undertaken by researchers in the group headed by Markus ...

For more than a century, an important class of matter -- the amorphous solid -- has eluded scientists' ability to depict nature at the level of atoms and molecules. Until now. A new study reports the ...

Persistence diagram obtained from the structure of amorphous silicon, examples of the local ring structures corresponding to each point in the diagram, and representative structures including atoms ...