"Revolutionary Polymer Adapts to Extreme Temperatures, Paving the Way for New Applications"

Researchers at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have developed a polymer pair that can adapt to high and low temperature extremes. The polymers, made with sulfoxide, exhibit different behaviors based on a small structural variation. One polymer becomes insoluble at higher temperatures while the other becomes insoluble at lower temperatures. This discovery opens up possibilities for applications in medicine, protein synthesis, protective coatings, and more. The researchers also found a new mechanism that governs the critical temperature threshold and observed a two-stage thermal behavior in the polymer.