Every product on this page was chosen by a Harper's BAZAAR editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. For many of us, brushing our hair means one thing: dealing with ...

Antimicrobial cutting boards. Flame-retardant carpets. Friction-resistant bearings. Engineered surfaces add value to the things we use, providing extra layers of safety, easing their operation, ...

Polymer brushes—polymer chains attached to a surface in such a way that they stand up like blades of grass from the ground—are promising for making patterned smart surfaces and microarrays for testing ...