News tagged with copolymers


Bioengineers succeed in producing plastic without the use of fossil fuels

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0

A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. This groundbreaking research, ...


'Writing' Patterns on Carbon Nanotubes With Polymer Chains

'Writing' Patterns on Carbon Nanotubes With Polymer Chains

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes are at the center of the nanoelectronics research movement, with scientists making great progress toward getting nanotube-based electronic devices into the hands of consumers. ...





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Researchers find new route to nano self-assembly

Researchers find new route to nano self-assembly

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers ...


Major advance in organic solar cells

Chemistry / Polymers

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Professor Guillermo Bazan and a team of postgraduate researchers at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS) today announced a major advance in the synthesis of organic polymers for plastic solar cells. ...


Pluronic L-81 is a potential anti-diabetic drug?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Pluronic surfactants are synthetic copolymers based on ethylene oxide and propylene oxide. It has been reported that a nonionic L-81, effectively inhibits absorption of dietary lipids from the intestine and secretion of VLDL ...


Spinning at the nanoscale: Electrospun fibers could be used for protective clothing, wearable power, more

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In his office, MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory Rutledge keeps a small piece of fabric that at first glance resembles a Kleenex. This tissue-like material, softer than silk, is composed of fibers ...


Synthetic Capsules Made of Natural Building Blocks

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The basis of all life forms are vesicles: membrane-enclosed, liquid-filled “bubbles” made of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Cells, which are separated from the surrounding medium by their cell membrane, ...


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250 DVDs on a quarter: New method of self-assembling nanoscale elements could transform data storage industry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (35) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative and easily implemented technique in which nanoscale elements precisely assemble themselves over large surfaces could soon open doors to dramatic improvements in the data storage ...


Nanomanufactured polymer film could lead to lower-cost solar cells

Nanomanufactured polymer film could lead to lower-cost solar cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- You never know where basic research may lead. For decades materials scientists have been experimenting with a corkscrew-like polymer structure called a gyroid. Now an international team of ...


Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage potential

Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 14, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new manufacturing approach holds the potential to overcome the technological limitations currently facing the microelectronics and data-storage industries, paving the way to smaller electronic ...


New chlorine-tolerant, desalination membrane hopes to boost access to clean water

Chemistry /

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A chemical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is part of a team that has developed a chlorine-tolerant membrane that should simplify the water desalination process, increasing access to fresh water ...


For Clean Water: Chlorine-tolerant membranes for desalination

Chemistry /

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most pressing needs of our time is safe, sustainable access to fresh water. The dominant technology for desalination of water is membrane-based desalination, an energy-efficient, environmentally ...



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