News tagged with water soluble polymer
Carbon nanotube polymer nanocomposites for field emission cathodes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 09, 2009 |
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A collaboration between researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that you can produce a composite of carbon nanotubes ...
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Holey Nanoparticles Create New Tumor Imaging and Therapeutic Agent
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 22, 2008 |
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Using a polymer that has both water-soluble and water-insoluble regions, a team of investigators from the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has created a nanoparticle shaped like a bialy, a close relative ...
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. ...
Bristly Spheres as Capsules
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(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 ...
New method of drug delivery more effective at reaching brain tumors
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Bioengineers at Yale and Cornell have created a modified chemotherapy that more effectively reaches and remains at the site of brain tumors — by adding a water-soluble polymer to the anti-cancer drug, according to a report ...
Switchable bio-adhesion
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Sep 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new type of property-changing polymer: It is water-repellent at 37°C, which makes it an ideal culture substrate for biological cells. At room temperature it attracts ...
Research gives new insights into 4 billion year-old meteorites
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have gained new insight into the makeup of ancient meteorites called Carbonaceous Chondrites, in research published in the October edition of the journal Earth Science and Planetary Le ...
Statin warning for pregnant women
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Pregnant women or those hoping to start or extend a family should avoid using the cholesterol-lowering drugs statins, say scientists.
For Clean Water: Chlorine-tolerant membranes for desalination
Jul 22, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Polymers 'battered' with nanoparticles could create self healing paints and clever packaging
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 24, 2008 |
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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 ...
Researchers Discover Nanoparticles Can Break On Through
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a finding that could speed the use of sensors or barcodes at the nanoscale, North Carolina State University engineers have shown that certain types of tiny organic particles, when heated to the proper ...
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