News tagged with polymeric materials
Chemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The scientists anticipate their "LithoParticles" will have significant applications in photonics, optical communications and other areas.
'Self-healing' polymer may facilitate recycling of hard-to-dispose plastic
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in The Netherlands are reporting development of a new plastic with potential for use in the first easy-to-recycle computer circuit boards, electrical insulation, and other electronics ...
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Carbon dioxide forms polymeric materials under high pressure
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Carbon dioxide is a molecular gas at ambient conditions and an important consitituent of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is also a likely component in the Earth’s mantle, and it plays an important role in the life ...
Self-repairing materials
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Will the day come when cracks in buildings close up without external help and before they get to the stage where they cause damage to the component? This might appear utopia, but it already occurs in nature. When a person ...
Researchers show how to make polymeric micro- and nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 09, 2007 |
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Researchers in the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara have discovered how to make polymeric micro- and nanoparticles in a wide variety of different shapes and sizes using commonly-available lab chemicals and equipment. ...
Three-dimensional polymer with unusual magnetism
Nov 13, 2006 |
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Up to now it has not been possible to fabricate magnets from organic materials, like for example plastics. Recently, however, experiments at the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) in collaboration with an international ...
Scientists de-polymerize polymers
Jun 26, 2007 |
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Japanese scientists have created a process that breaks down certain plastics, allowing the chemicals to be reused to make new higher-quality plastic.
Trapped! Scientists Immobilize Bacteria in Fibrous Hydrogel
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria play a role in myriad industrial processes from fermentation to cleaning up environmental pollution. But floating freely in solution, the microbial cells constantly multiply, generating ...
A Promising Catalyst for Solar-Based Hydrogen Energy Production
Dec 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found that a polymer material is an excellent catalyst in a process to produce hydrogen fuel using sunlight and water. The material meets the basic requirements for an ideal catalyst -- including ...
Nanocomposite material provides photonic switching
Feb 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrated photonic devices represent the wave of future technology. These devices will be extremely small, making use of photons on the nanoscale, and (hopefully) be very efficient in terms of power use. ...
Copolymers block out new approaches to microelectronics at NIST
Mar 12, 2008 |
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In response to the electronics industry’s rallying cry of “smaller and faster,” the next breakthroughs in the electronics size barrier are likely to come from microchips and data storage devices created out ...
Inverse Woodpile Structure Has Extremely Large Photonic Band Gap
May 21, 2007 |
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As many homeowners know, when stacking firewood, pieces should be placed close enough to permit passage of a mouse, but not of a cat chasing the mouse.
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