News tagged with polymer brushes
Researchers achieve breakthrough in effort to develop tiny biological fuel cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 19, 2009 |
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University of Georgia researchers have developed a successful way to grow molecular wire brushes that conduct electrical charges, a first step in developing biological fuel cells that could power pacemakers, cochlear implants ...
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A Tiny Cage of Gold Responds to Light, Opening to Empty Its Contents
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a polymer-coated gold nanocage that not only opens in response to light to release a small amount of a drug payload, but then closes when the ...
Scientists Create Multifunctional Brushes From Carbon Nanotubes
Jun 28, 2005 |
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The nanobrushes could benefit the electronic, biomedical, and other industries Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a line of brushes whose bristles, made from carbon nanotubes, are so small that a thou ...
Transporting gold across physical boundaries
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 23, 2007 |
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Achieving the desired effect is often only a question of the right place and the right moment - and this also applies to drugs. In order to be transported in the bloodstream, they need to be water-soluble. ...
Temperature-sensitive Nanobrushes
Jul 13, 2005 |
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Electrically conducting polymer with temperature-dependent optical properties and water solubility The terms plastic and electrical current usually bring to mind such things as insulators or computer cases. It goes withou ...
Scientists Measure Differences Between Normal and Cancer Cell Surfaces
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that cancerous cells and normal cells have different physical features, but the details of these differences, and why they occur, are not well understood. In a recent edition ...
Specialized polymer used to detect nerve agents, toxic chemicals for air monitoring in emergencies
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique polymer that allows sensors to detect nerve agents and other toxic industrial chemicals in the air is now available to companies developing chemical detectors for emergency personnel, ...
Sweet -- sugared polymer a new weapon against allergies and asthma
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins and their colleagues have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks. Their advance is a significant step ...
Looking deeply into polymer solar cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 13, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell. This gives them important new insights ...
Graffiti-free historic buildings: New polymer coating to help
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many a historic landmark is defaced with graffiti, but the spray paint can only be removed - if at all - using caustic solutions which risk damaging the underlying surface. A new breathable ...
Unzipping Carbon Nanotubes Can Make Graphene Ribbons
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By "unzipping" carbon nanotubes, researchers have shown how to make flat graphene ribbons. Graphene, which is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like chicken wire, has unique electrical ...
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