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Chemistry World
October 22, 2007
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A Swell Idea? US researchers have developed a new polymer-based gel that can rapidly change color in response to a range of triggers, including temperature, humidity and salt concentration.   |
Chemistry World
January 9, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
A Nanotech Solution to Wrinkled Skin Researchers who have discovered that nanoparticles prevent thin polymer films from buckling say their concept could be applied to stop human skin wrinkling too. |
Chemistry World
July 15, 2015
Aurora Walshe |
Fog-free film doesn't dare to glare Scientists in China have built a thin film that retains its antifogging properties even under an antireflective coating. |
Reactive Reports
September 2005
David Bradley |
Nano Surprise A surprising mechanism by which polymers form nanocomposite particles could provide researchers with a new tool for controlling the growth of such materials. |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2011
James Mitchell Crow |
Polymer Side Chains on the Slide Researchers may now be able to create rotaxane polymers whose properties alter in response to chemical stimuli. |
Chemistry World
January 28, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Colourful Crystals Monitor Humidity Chinese chemists have developed a material that changes color according to the humidity of the air around it. |
Chemistry World
May 15, 2012
James Mitchell Crow |
Polymer gel squeezes and strains like an intestine Researchers have found that the oscillating chemical waves of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction are strong enough to carry a cargo, driving it along a length of smart polymer tubing using contractions - just like an intestine. |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2012
Andy Extance |
Sweaty Buildings Cool Themselves Covering the roofs of buildings with a hydrogel could help them keep cool by sweating. |
Chemistry World
December 2011
Emma Davies |
Re-Record, Not Fade Away A look at the blockbuster tale of film preservation. |
Chemistry World
February 6, 2006
Jon Evans |
Head-to-Tail Monomers Improve Solar Cell Efficiency A team of researchers found that the P3HT polymer chains stacked together more tightly in high RR films, which made them absorb more light and let electrons travel more easily through them. |
Chemistry World
September 11, 2009
Tom Bond |
Just heat and heal A polymer system based on weak, reversible bonds that can heal itself when heated has been created by UK and US chemists. The new polymers could be further developed and used in the aerospace and other industries, say the researchers. |
Chemistry World
October 11, 2007
Jonathan Edwards |
'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells. |
Chemistry World
June 1, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Structural order gained over conducting polymer Scientists in Canada and the US have shown how it is possible to assemble ordered arrays of short chains of a commercially important conducting polymer on a metal surface. |
Chemistry World
February 5, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Crystalline polymers make airtight films Squeezing polymers into extremely thin layers can make them a whole lot less gas-permeable, US scientists have shown. |
Technology Research News
July 30, 2003 |
Nano light stores data in polymer Researchers from the University of Pisa in Italy have shown that it is possible to write lots of information in very little space using a thin film of polymer and polarized blue light. |
Chemistry World
August 18, 2008 |
Patterning Promise for Next-Gen Computers Breakthroughs in controlling the way polymers self-assemble on surfaces could be key to making the next generation of computer components, say two teams in the US. |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Gel electrodes show biomedical promise Composed of conductive polymers patterned onto slices of hydrogel, the biocompatible electrodes can function under wet conditions for up to a month - making them very useful in medical research. |
Science News
March 19, 2005 |
From the March 16, 1935, Issue Leningrad Institute Celebrates 50th Anniversary... Temperature and Humidity Recorded by Same Instrument... Scientists May be Searching Vainly for Negative Proton... |
Chemistry World
April 2, 2009
Michael Gross |
Light-guided hydrogels direct cell growth Researchers in the US have developed a gel-like material whose structural and chemical properties can change in response to laser light |
Technology Research News
May 19, 2004 |
Electricity Turns Plastic Green Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have made a conducting polymer that changes to a very clean green color in the presence of electricity. |
Chemistry World
July 12, 2012
David Bradley |
Homeostatic hydrogels to help heat the home Living things can take control of the physical environment in which they find themselves, monitoring and controlling their temperature, pH, various internal pressures and ion concentrations through a range of self-regulating feedback loops. |
Chemistry World
March 12, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
New Coating Could Make Cars Scratch-Proof A futuristic new material that uses sunlight to repair any scratches on its surface has been developed by US researchers. |
Chemistry World
May 22, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
'Printing' organs with hydrogels Dutch researchers have developed a way to 'print' stable cell-containing scaffolds, creating a method that could one day be used to help make tailor-made tissue grafts |
