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- Polymer
- Meaning "many parts," it is a material constructed of smaller molecules of the same substance that form larger molecules. For example, plastic is a synthetic polymer, while protein is...
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- Thinner, better, already sold out—the new new thing in solar?
- Solar energy can seem like a green tech fantasy. Energy free for the collection. Found in some of the emptiest spots on earth: deserts, parking lots, urban rooftops, open ocean, airplace wings, at 50,000 feet above the earth. Think about all that sunshine. And a company down...
- Tags: Dr., Polymer, Global Solar Energy, CIGS, BUSINESS Global Solar, I-sol, Indium, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Datasqueeze (bin)
- Datasqueeze is a graphical interface for analyzing data from 2D x-ray diffraction detectors (wire, image plate, CCD), running on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS X. The interface is simple and intuitive, and the program is easy to use even for those new to x-ray diffraction analysis. Datasqueeze is particularly useful...
- Tags: Polymer, Analysis, Datasqueeze Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-27
- Smart holograms to monitor our health?
- In a short news release, the Institute of Physics reports that smart holograms, which use materials called hydrogels that shrink or swell in response to local environmental conditions, can be used to monitor many physical conditions than three years ago. These smart holograms could soon be used 'by diabetics to...
- Tags: Monitor, Hologram, Health Care, Polymer, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Datasqueeze (msi)
- Datasqueeze is a graphical interface for analyzing data from 2D x-ray diffraction detectors (wire, image plate, CCD), running on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS X. The interface is simple and intuitive, and the program is easy to use even for those new to x-ray diffraction analysis. Datasqueeze is particularly useful...
- Tags: Polymer, Analysis, Datasqueeze Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-04
- Can nerves really regenerate?
- People suffering of injury to the brain or spinal cord cannot currently be treated because central nervous system neurons have a very limited capability of self-repair and regeneration. But now, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a potentially promising strategy for encouraging the regeneration of damaged neurons....
- Tags: Polymer, Neuron, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- New oil-repelling material from MIT
- MIT researchers have developed flexible surface coatings that repel oils. According to the research team, this is the first material able to do it. They say that these findings could have applications in aviation, space travel and hazardous waste cleanup. Their oil-repelling, or 'oleophobic' material, is using specially prepared microfibers,...
- Tags: Surface, Droplet, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Polymer, Molecule, Fiber, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- Plastic to help water and gas industries
- Researchers have lots of imagination. After developing plastic as solid as steel, other scientists from in Australia, Korea and in the U.S. have created a plastic which could cut CO2 emissions and purify water. Their new material mimics pores found in plants and is exceptionally efficient. As said one of...
- Tags: Membrane, Researcher, Carbon Dioxide, Separation, Industry, Polymer, Molecule, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- A plastic as solid as steel
- A new composite plastic built layer by layer has been created by engineers at the University of Michigan. This plastic is as strong as steel. It has been built the same way as mother-of-pearl, and shows similar strength. Interestingly, this 300-layer plastic has been built with 'strong' nanosheets of clay...
- Tags: Atom, Polymer, Material, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Toward safer gene therapy?
- Gene therapy has been used in more than 1,000 clinical trials during the last 20 years. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA has never approved a single application. The reason is simple: the former trials were using viruses to deliver genes to fight diseases like cancer. And viruses...
- Tags: DNA, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Polymer, Therapy, Gene Therapy, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Wrinkles in nanoscale-sized films
- An international team of scientists from Chile, the Netherlands and the U.S. has found a very simple way to measure the material properties of thin films having a thickness of only a dozen nanometers. The researchers just dropped water on thin film floating in a Petri dish. This causes wrinkles...
- Tags: Film, Wrinkle, Polymer, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-12
- A very robust 50-atom-thick nanosheet
- A team of U.S. scientists has discovered that by tightly packing molecules, they could obtain nanothin sheets of materials showing surprising strength. As one enthusiast researcher says, "It's an amazing little marvel." The team adds that "even when suspended over a tiny hole and poked with an ultrafine tip, the...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Polymer opal films are not for rings
- British and German researchers have developed a new type of flexible plastic film. These 'polymer opal films' can change colors under certain conditions. For example, they could easily help you to see if some kind of perishable food items are not good anymore because the packaging would change color. They...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- Sunglasses changing color in a second
- Wouldnt it be nice to wear sunglasses that change colors according to the weather or to your new skiing suit? According to the American Chemical Society ACS, scientists at the University of Washington have developed a new lens material that makes this possible. Their smart sunglasses can change color on...
- Tags: University of Washington, polymer, American Chemical Society
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Photos: Polymer Vision's Readius handheld
- Announced in 2005, the Readius cell phone, which features a roll-out screen, will soon debut in Europe.
- Tags: cell phone, Europe, handheld, polymer, Readius, telephone
- Image galleries 2007-02-08
- Triple-shape plastics for surgery
- In Plastics Day in Surgery, Red Herring reports that an international team of U.S. and German researchers has developed a new kind of plastic that can shift between three different shapes when the temperature increases. Even if these polymeric triple-shape materials have not emerged from the lab, they could eventually...
- Tags: C/C++, polymer, stent, C, plastics
- Blog posts 2006-11-25
- Flexible transistors for your clothes
- Physicists from Austria and the U.S. have built ultra-thin pressure sensors which can be woven into sensitive textiles. In "Haute couture from the experimental physics lab," they say that their new thin-film transistors TFTs can switch back and forth in reaction to pressure. To achieve this effect, they coupled TFTs...
- Tags: transistor
- Blog posts 2006-10-01
- Plastic batteries coming soon?
- Engineers at Brown University have built a prototype of an hybrid plastic battery that uses a conductive polymer. The system, which marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery, can store and deliver power efficiently. For example, during performance testing, "it delivered more than 100...
- Tags: battery
- Blog posts 2006-09-15
- Ethanol maker pops in public offering
- Ethanol maker pops in public offeringSuperweedssounds interesting . . . ;)Americans take it up the backside again...Let's ask why this company is profitable. The fact is, it is not profitable, it is being shored up via "welfare" from both the state and federal government, as well as the CORN...
- Tags: alcohol, Ethanol, biodiesel, corn, polymer, ethanol, crop
- Discussion threads 2006-06-14
- 'Cooking' carbon nanotubes like spaghetti
- Scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have developed a technique to force a variety of enzymes to self-assemble layer-by-layer on carbon nanotubes CNTs with the help of noodle-like polymer molecules. In "A biosensor layered like lasagna," the researchers say that this technique can be applied to a wide...
- Tags: carbon nanotube, nanotube, polymer
- Blog posts 2006-04-30
- A Roadmap for Printable Electronics
- Printable electronics promises to create circuitry using nanometallic and polymer inks, laid down using either conventional printing technologies, such as offset, or with ink-jet printers. This new way of creating electronics will lead to a variety of new products that could not be created using conventional CMOS processes. These new...
- Tags: Electronics, Polymer, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2005-08-01
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