Team Provides Insight Into Nobel Prize Winner’s Polymer Theory
SYDNEY, Australia - A team of international scientists, including Dr. Stuart Prescott from The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia), has discovered there is something missing from 1991 Nobel Prize winner French physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes’ theory on polymers.
De Gennes put forward a theory that described the properties of polymer brushes, advanced polymer coatings for surfaces, and how they could be applied to surfaces as an adhesive, lubricant or as an anti-fouling agent.