Polymer
Bone Stem Cells can be used to mend damaged hips
...researchers will use adult stem cells from bone marrow in combination with an innovative impaction process and polymer scaffolds. In a two-year study, funded by the Medical Research...
Scientists develop 'invisibility cloaks'
...factors that are defined by the material's refractive index. The researchers achieved this by using a polymer crystal made of tiny rods, with air spaces in between. Air has a...
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Multifunctional polymer can neutralize both biological and chemical weapons
...from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, US, have synthesized a single, multifunctional polymer material that can decontaminate both biological and chemical toxins.
Boffins peg co-polymers for cheap chip construction
...process of the kind used to create circuits in today's CPUs and GPUs. The rubber bands are molecular co-polymers - two mutually repelling molecules which are nonetheless attached to...
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Microprocessor mega-shocker: self-assembling silicon chips could lead to ever smaller circuitry
...patterns of nano-posts on a silicon chip, which are deposited with special polymers, resulting in a hookup between the polymer and the posts which arrange themselves into useful patterns...
MIT building self-assembling computer chips
...to create nanoscale "posts" on a silicon chip. They then deposited copolymers--large molecules of two polymers with repeating structural units--on the chip. The copolymers...
MIT Researchers Enable Self-assembling of Chips
...potentially reducing manufacturing costs. The researchers have developed a technique in which polymers automatically fall into place to create an integrated circuit, said...
Long polymer chains dance the conga
...structure. They play a role in numerous cellular processes, including signaling and transport. Similar polymers are used in applications from tires to contact lenses to the gels used...
"By changing the thickness of the rods, you can change the ratio of air to polymer," explained Dr Ergin. "Since the refractive index of air is about one and the refractive index of the polymer is about 1.52," he explained, "in principle, we can get any refractive index between those two numbers,"
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Giving Plastic Solar Cells an Energy Boost
...into electricity--or around a third of what conventional silicon panels are capable of. If the efficiency of polymer solar cells--which are cheaper and lighter than silicon cells--can be...
Human arm transmits broadband
...in place for long periods of time. Lee and colleagues coated a metal electrode with a flexible silicon-rich polymer and made sure it was skin safe by asking volunteers to wear an...
GigOptix Receives Approximately $500,000 Funding to Enable New Era of Ultra Fast Hybrid Silicon-Organic Integrated Circuits Based on Proprietary Polymer
...Hybrid Fabrication Platform for Integrated Circuits ("SOFI"). The company's unique electro-optic polymer which is being used in SOFI, as well as other research projects by...
Soane Energy's Oil-Grabbing Polymers Could Make a Necessary Industry Less Noxious
...latest startup, Cambridge, MA-based Soane Energy, the former U.C. Berkeley professor is applying his knowledge of polymer chemistry to do exactly that. The company's "ATA" technology-for...
