AKRON—The University of Akron is giving its students the opportunity to build a strong foundation in the polymer industry as it becomes the first public university in Ohio to offer an undergraduate ...

In your undergraduate program, you’ll master the foundations of polymers through 90 credit hours and specialize in one of two tracks: traditional polymer engineering or biomaterials. You’ll then build ...

Despite a proposal to cut 10 positions from the University of Akron’s polymer science and polymer engineering program, the school's president in a December statement said the university will not do ...

MIT researchers have developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, raising the ...

The University of Akron has named Dr. Craig Menzemer as dean of the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. The appointment was effective April 1 and still needs to be approved by the university's ...

AKRON, Ohio - Eric Amis, dean of the University of Akron's College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, has announced he will step down on June 30 and continue as a tenured faculty member. Amis ...

The lightweight material, only nanometers thick, blocks gases more effectively than any polymer ever made and rivals graphene ...

Two-dimensional materials — materials that are only one atom thick — have been touted as the building blocks of next-generation sensors and wearable electronics. While these materials, which include ...

Angle-independent colored materials based on Christiansen effect was successfully prepared using phase-separated polymer membrane and thermotropic liquid crystal. Because this system displays ...

John Rabolt, the Karl. W. and Renate Böer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and D. Bruce Chase, a research professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, both at the ...

Materials giant Borealis has launched Stelora, a new class of sustainable engineering polymer based on renewable feedstock that offers increased strength and durability in addition to a step change in ...