Composite adhesives like epoxy resins are excellent tools for joining and filling materials including wood, metal, and concrete. But there’s one problem: once a composite sets, it’s there forever. Now there’s a better way. Researchers have developed a simple polymer that serves as a strong and stable filler that can later be dissolved. It works like a tangled ball of yarn that, when pulled, unravels into separate fibers.
A new study led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) outlines a way to engineer pseudo-bonds in...
by Tiffany Lohwater | Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society
UC Berkeley researchers in chemistry and computer science recently reported on their use of an AI tool – large language models – to advance discovery in reticular chemistry and materials science.
The perspective paper(link is external) was published in the journal Nature Reviews Materials earlier this month by researchers at the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP) and the Department of Chemistry at Berkeley. BIDMaP is part of Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society....
Professor Ting Xu will take part in BAMPFA’s upcoming discussion, Plastic People, on February 9, 2025, at 1 PM. The event will explore the complex impact of plastics on society and the environment. The conversation is part of BAMPFA’s efforts to bridge science and public discourse.
"The third annual Philomathia Day took place on Friday, Jan. 31, and honored 2024 Philomathia Prize recipient Associate Professor Kwabena Bediako(link is external). The event, themed, "Quantum at the Macroscale," was an exploration of how chemists and physicists are leveraging the emergent properties of molecules and crystals."
Kristin Persson, the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley, and member of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute was elected for pioneering data-driven materials design through the creation and stewardship of open materials databases and associated data-mining algorithms.
