News tagged with packaging material


Seeing invisible resin

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When manufacturing chipboards, it is important to correctly distribute the resin on the wood shavings. Researchers are now developing a measuring technique that makes it possible to monitor the application ...





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New research will seal the future of green packaging

New research will seal the future of green packaging

Chemistry /

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Bath and the food & drinks research centre at Campden BRI are leading a project to create a new high speed environmentally-friendly packaging process that will use recycled ...


Hormone-mimics in plastic water bottles -- just the tip of the iceberg?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 7

In an analysis1 of commercially available mineral waters, the researchers found evidence of estrogenic compounds leaching out of the plastic packaging into the water. What's more, these chemicals are potent in vivo and result ...


Father's Day Gift? Special Packaging for Genes in Sperm

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It was long believed that conception does not involve a meeting of equals. The egg is a relatively large, impressive biological factory compared with the tiny sperm, which delivers to the egg one copy of ...


Paper from sugar cane saves trees and money

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way to make paper more easily and cheaply from bagasse, the fibrous sugar cane waste from sugar production, than from trees has been discovered by a Queensland University of Technology researcher.


New test finds diisobutyl phthalate in some cardboard food packaging -- recycling is the issue

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 28, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new test can identify take-away paper-based food containers (such as pizza boxes) that break phthalate safety rules. The phthalates (plasticisers) are present because the containers were made from pulp that contained at ...


Tessera wins patent dispute with chipmakers

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Tessera Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that it won a patent dispute over small-format semiconductor packaging products, with the International Trade Commission issuing a cease-and-desist order against rivals Motorola ...


Battered Polymers

Polymers 'battered' with nanoparticles could create self healing paints and clever packaging

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 1

Research chemists at the University of Warwick have devised an elegant process which simply and cheaply covers small particles of polymer with a layer of silica-based nanoparticles. The final result provides ...


Biologists theorize role for DNA packaging in stem cell development

Biology /

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

MIT biologists have discovered that the organization of DNA's packing material plays a critical role in directing stem cells to become different types of adult cells.


New Nanotech Polymer

New polymer could improve semiconductor manufacturing, packaging

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 28, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Polyset Company have developed a new inexpensive, quick-drying polymer that could lead to dramatic cost savings and efficiency gains in semiconductor manufacturing ...


Recycling

Can Recycling Be Bad for the Environment?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (31) | comments 27

(PhysOrg.com) -- By now, nearly everyone knows that it is important to recycle. It helps the environment. Even my six-year-old knows that. But what if it doesn't? While it seems pretty straightforward, in ...



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