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Colorful columns: Simple method for the production of microcylinders with multiple compartments

Chemistry / Polymers

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Under a microscope they look like tiny pie charts or colorful candy canes: A team led by Joerg Lahann at the University of Michigan has been able to produce micrometer-wide discs and elongated rods precisely ...





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Graffiti-free historic buildings

Graffiti-free historic buildings: New polymer coating to help

Chemistry / Polymers

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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 ...


Bristly Spheres as Capsules

Bristly Spheres as Capsules

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amphiphilic molecules, which have one water-friendly (hydrophilic) end and one water-repellant (hydrophobic) end, spontaneously aggregate in aqueous solutions to make superstructures like ...


Sweet -- sugared polymer a new weapon against allergies and asthma

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Nanotubes Go With the Flow

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Carbon nanotubes are attractive candidates for use as the active elements in the next generation of electronic devices. However, it has proven incredibly difficult to align nanotubes within device architectures.


'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

(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. ...


Step forward for nanotechnology: Controlled movement of molecules

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting an advance toward overcoming one of the key challenges in nanotechnology: Getting molecules to move quickly in a desired direction without help from outside forces. Their achievement ...


Sandia's microencapsulation project gives local entrepreneur warm glow

Chemistry /

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microencapsulation isn't a new technology, but it's always finding new applications. Familiar uses include the scratch-and-sniff perfume ads in magazines, certain time-release pharmaceuticals, and (perhaps mostly for an older ...


Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter

Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO researchers have set themselves the goal of producing a new generation of super-strong, lightweight polymer composite materials for use in aircraft, road vehicles, trains and ferries.


Scientists Use Self-Assembly to Make Molecule-Sized Particles With Patches of Charge

Scientists Use Self-Assembly to Make Molecule-Sized Particles With Patches of Charge

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists, chemists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules ...


Shape-memory polymers designed for biomedical applications

Researchers design shape-memory polymers for biomedical applications

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created Jan 03, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing unique polymers, which change shape upon heating, to open blocked arteries, probe neurons in the brain and engineer a tougher spine.



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