The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is currently developing novel materials with high-bulk electro-optic (EO) activities that are transparent in the visible and/or near infrared regions of the spectrum. This multi-defense laboratory collaboration is a highly interactive and multispectral research effort (with expertise spanning from molecular modeling, materials development and processing, and system fabrication and testing), which is operating toward the development of fast EO shutters. A computational effort to predict ...
Although there are many approaches to clean up wastewater and soil contaminated with heavy metals and other industrial pollutants, remediation with chelating polymers is one of the most versatile and inexpensive methods. The polymer ligand's efficiency and selectivity for particular metal ions are two important parameters that can be controlled by ligand type, ligand density, solubility of the polymer, as well as operating pH. An overview of remediating polymers and ...