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Plastics are made of semisynthetic polymerization products composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. Their widespread use made them indispensable in almost all industry areas.Unfortunately, plastic polymers are durable and degrade very... |
15 June 2007
06:47 GMT |
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Everybody knows potatoes, some people love them, some people don't. But for the junk food addicts, there are some good news: future bags of chips may actually be made of potatoes, thus bringing the potato out of the bag and into the bag. A new study by the University of Maine's Margaret Chase Smith Policy ... |
7 June 2007
16:26 GMT |
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Plastics are made of semisynthetic polymerization products composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. Their widespread use made them indispensable in almost all industry areas.Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst were... |
30 May 2007
09:25 GMT |
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Shish-kebab is a tasty meat dish usually made of lamb and beef, but chicken is not excluded. Only pork. Now, a new type of shish-kebab is on the market, but it's made of polymers. And it's not edible.Shish-kebabs are nanoscale structures that form when polymers crystallize during flow, looking like a skewe... |
21 May 2007
05:51 GMT |
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You need a new tooth brush, or a battery cover for the cell phone, or your kid just broke a plastic component of his new toy and you don't have the time to go to a store. Soon, you will be able to create these items by yourself, at home.3-D printers will be the answer. You just get the blueprint of the objects ... |
14 May 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Nature may have created weird bloods like blue or colorless ones, but this is really odd: a team at Sheffield University has created artificial blood made of plastic. The synthetic plastic blood is not a long-term substitute for the real stuff but a substitute in emergencies like injured soldiers and crash victims,... |
12 May 2007
03:51 GMT |
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Plastics sheets can be turned into different shapes to serve industrial purposes, but they do not revert to their original state (plasticity is a property of a material to undergo a non-reversible change of shape in response to an applied force), and they definitely do not change shape by themselves.At least until n... |
13 April 2007
06:37 GMT |
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Olyaniline (PANI) is a conducting polymer of the semi-flexible rod polymer family, discovered in 1934 as anilin black, that can also exist naturally as part of a mixed copolymer with polyacetylene and polypyrrole in some melanins.A University of Texas at Austin researcher has modified this special plastic so that it... |
10 April 2007
09:55 GMT |
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The problem of the plastic contamination could be solved by biodegradable polymers made of poultry feathers, a solution that would also decrease costs in poultry industry. Only in the US over 29 million tons of non-biodegradable plastic waste reach the landfills yearly. "12 % of all plastic packaging ends up in landf... |
30 March 2007
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Good news for winter sport lovers. A novel portable plastic splint that heat-molds itself around broken or wounded limbs is being designed to help skiers and others who enjoy taking part in extreme snow sports.To use the splint, the patient must wrap strips of resistant but flexible plastic bandage tightly around the... |
28 March 2007
06:49 GMT |
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International maritime laws currently forbid disposal of plastic materials at sea.Plastics are very tricky for the marine environment. They break down extremely slowly and the resulting products are very toxic. Moreover, some plastic can fool some species (like marine turtles) to be taken as jellyfish and many indivi... |
28 March 2007
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Now we have finally found out why some people can be registered as qualified skunks and why some of our workmates subdue us daily to olfactive tortures!Look why: Phthalates are esters widely used for over 50 years in everything from plastics (to turn them flexible), PVC, soaps, cosmetics, shampoos, lotions, lubricant... |
16 March 2007
06:05 GMT |
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