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During transport and storage, proteins are very prone to suffering degradation, or losing their active properties. Excipients such as polyethylene glycol are used to stabilize them, but experts now announce the development of special polymers that could do this more effectively.
The materials are capable of stabiliz... |
22 May 2012
08:29 GMT |
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Dresden, Germany-based startup Heliatek announces the development of an innovative solar panel design, which uses polyester films and small organic molecules for producing electricity from sunlight.
The devices are significantly more efficient at converting photons into electrons than existing technologies, but they... |
19 April 2012
03:15 GMT |
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The microfluidic device – also known as the lab-on-a-chip – is a new technology that can be used for a variety of applications, including disease diagnostics, water and blood analysis, particle selection, and so on. Now, researchers in the United States want to bring it into the spotlight.
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29 March 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Biomedical scientists at the Brown University announce the development of a new implant that may reduce the risk of breast cancer relapse in women who've overcome the disease once. If this approach works, it would help prevent a large number of unnecessary deaths among women.Official statistics estimate that as ... |
24 March 2012
08:05 GMT |
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According to a new scientific paper published in the March 9 issue of the top journal Science, a new type of polymer is perfectly capable of creating 3D structures, once it's submerged in water. The material originally comes as sheets, its developers say. University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMA) investigators ... |
9 March 2012
02:54 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) announce the development of a new method of triggering the release of encapsulated drugs right inside the human body. The method could reduce side-effects associated with techniques currently in use.
UCSD experts say that this applies only to drugs tha... |
23 November 2011
09:37 GMT |
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Semiconducting carbon nanotubes could soon make their way into solar panels, printable circuits, stretchable and bendable electronics and inside computer displays, thanks to a new technique developed at Stanford University for increasing the commercial potential this material has.
Carbon nanotubes are already known... |
18 November 2011
07:32 GMT |
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US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) physicists announce the development of a new approach to improving lithium-ion batteries, the most common portable energy-storing devices in use today.
While these batteries provide acceptable performances for cell phones, laptops,... |
23 September 2011
10:40 GMT |
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In a bid to improve the efficiency and reduce the costs of lithium-ion batteries, researchers at the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom, have recently developed a novel polymer. The material can be used to manufacture batteries that have high performances, but lower costs.
According to the researchers, th... |
9 September 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A collaboration of Belgian researchers, featuring members from the imec research center, Plextronics and Solvay, recently announced the development of a new type of organic solar cell. The device is more efficient than similar cells developed in the past, and has numerous applications.
The organic, polymer-based,... |
5 September 2011
10:30 GMT |
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, have recently developed a new method for producing tiny polymer particles. Unlike other approaches, the new one enables the creation of particles of any shape. These particles are absolutely essential for the creation of new drug delivery sy... |
16 August 2011
08:08 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hopes to begin a small clinical trial next year. During this trial, experts will test a new gel they developed, which can mimic key traits of human vocal cords. The innovation could benefit millions of p... |
14 July 2011
09:42 GMT |
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A group of experts in the United States announces the development of a new method for detecting liver cancer, which they say could help oncologists discover the disease earlier on than currently possible. The approach can detect cancer tumors that are as small as 5 millimeters, a significant improvement from other av... |
23 June 2011
04:39 GMT |
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A group of physicists in the United States announces the development of a new method for imaging the internal structure of a material called Nafion. The advanced polymer is tremendously useful for constructing batteries, and the innovation could make it even more so. Now that the material's inner structure can b... |
20 June 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Scientists at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) announce the development of a new type of electrode, that could significantly boost the efficiency of solar cells. The innovation is a response to the most recent demands on the market, which call for the development of transparent... |
20 April 2011
04:28 GMT |
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In a development that could easily lead to the development of new treatments against common wounds, researchers managed to create a special type of polymer that can delivery cells within damaged tissues.The new material can be fashioned in the shape of a star, but researchers say that its main trait is that it's... |
18 April 2011
04:28 GMT |
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The quest for new composite materials has been raging on for years, as experts realized the tremendous potential they hold for a wide array of applications. Recently, scientists in the UK received funds to start developing high performance, fiber-reinforced polymer composites.The Engineering and Physical Sciences Res... |
28 March 2011
08:53 GMT |
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Nanocomposite materials have been receiving a lot of attention lately, and that is starting to show in innovations produced at leading universities. One such innovation comes from Rice University experts, who created a material that becomes more resistant the more you abuse it. This trait can be found in the human bo... |
24 March 2011
09:19 GMT |
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Hydrogen-fueled vehicles have been in the making for decades, but one thing that prevented them from being widely adopted was the lack of a storage material efficient enough to contain large amounts of the fuel. Now, the issue may have been solved in the United States. Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DO... |
14 March 2011
11:46 GMT |
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Producing nanoscale particles according to custom specifications has been a goal in this field of research for several years, but achieving this objective was never easy. Now, it would appear that a collaboration of US researchers managed to do just that. The investigators developed a method of producing nanoparticle... |
8 March 2011
16:31 GMT |
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A team of investigators at the University of Chicago announces the development of a new method for producing a substance that replicates the behavior and effects of a self-healing sticky substance that mussels use to anchor themselves to rocks.The creatures also use the chemical to ensure that they are affixed to the... |
28 January 2011
17:01 GMT |
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A collaboration of investigators from the Kyushu University and the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) announces the development of a new type of polymer, that can mend itself. Whenever it is damaged, a simple exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light makes it as new again. The healing process takes place at room temperature,... |
20 January 2011
05:02 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States managed to develop a mathematical model that for the first time explains the behavior of shape-memory polymers. These materials are not new, but the way they function has never been modeled before. In charge of the investigation were researches at the Massachusetts Instit... |
6 December 2010
06:45 GMT |
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A new type of transparent material has been produced in the United States, by a team of investigators at two national laboratories. The experts say that the thin films could conceivably be used to underlie the development of transparent solar panel technology.The thing about these thin films is that they are perfectl... |
4 November 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Researchers in California have demonstrated in a new investigation that oil and water do mix, when they showed that the two chemicals can combine when nanofibers are added to the mix. This enabled the research group to produce conducting polymer thin films, that can literally be spread out evenly over virtually all t... |
2 November 2010
06:04 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the United States has recently developed a new method for improving the speed of ions, that allows for the charged atoms to move faster than between conventional electrodes.The work was conducted in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Pennsylvania State University... |
8 October 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have recently demonstrated that, by stretching metamaterials, they can dynamically change the wavelength of infrared light the structure naturally responds to.Metamaterials are constructs put together by humans, a variety of materials that is able to infl... |
8 October 2010
09:44 GMT |
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A team of investigators announces the development of a new type of nanostructure, one so strong that it exceeds the toughness of steel. The new material is derived solely from simple organic elements.According to its creators, the material is the strongest organic nanoscale structure ever developed anywhere in the wo... |
1 October 2010
02:27 GMT |
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Researchers have some time ago determined that it's possible to use what they call “walking polymers” to delivery drug molecules to a target cell, tissue or organ. The polymers – repetitive sequences of certain structural units – are shaped like an octopus, and they are extremely efficien... |
4 August 2010
14:01 GMT |
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One of the main goals for research in the United States today is the conversion of carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuel-powered electrical plants into useful products. As part of this endeavor, the US Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $106 million (£68 million) in research grant money to six companies th... |
29 July 2010
05:27 GMT |
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In the field of bioengineering, molecules such as DNA, RNA and most proteins count as polymers. This means that scientists have to know a few generally-valid rules in order to be able to design nanoparticles capable of carrying these molecules inside a cell. The creation of these “carriers” is however opt... |
29 July 2010
03:10 GMT |
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A group of investigators recently managed to produce a two-layer sheet of material at the nanoscale that they say resembles a cellular wall. The substrate is made out of polymers, and the group says that it has amazingly-well defined edges. This in turn is bound to make it suitable for a wide array of potential appli... |
12 April 2010
09:02 GMT |
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Researchers have recently demonstrated a new type of polymer, that can easily remember up to four different shapes, and which can revert to each of them depending on the temperature it is being subjected to at a particular time. Needless to say, such a material has tremendous potential, for applications in fields ran... |
11 March 2010
02:41 GMT |
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Scientists working for General Motors announce the development of a very strong glue, that is about 10 times stickier than Velcro, and that can be made to come loose, and then reused, when heated. Other research teams have over the past few years attempted to perfect a number of gecko-inspired glues, but their effort... |
16 February 2010
08:48 GMT |
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Researchers have been looking for methods of improving energy conversion and production from various sources for many years. One of these sources is movement, something that we do even in our sleep, but which is energy lost. Investigators looking at methods of tapping into these immense energy reserves have attempted... |
30 January 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Polymers, or electrically conducting plastics, were discovered more than ten years ago to be able to generate what researchers referred to as random lasers. This was a very peculiar phenomenon, which some physicists even refused to believe existed. Now, all these years later, scientists at the University of Utah, whe... |
25 January 2010
09:02 GMT |
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Cellulose has for a long time been touted as a material that is capable to provide the foundation for a new type of batteries, that could power up small applications. For instance, they could be used in gift wraps, that could light up and say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Birthday.” But what phy... |
26 November 2009
03:09 GMT |
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Graphene is one of the most recently-discovered materials in the scientific community, at the tender age of 5 years old. In spite of only being discovered in 2004, it is already considered to be one of the possible replacements for silicon, the chemical that at this point provides the basis for the world of electroni... |
24 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based BIND Biosciences, a start-up, is currently working on a new method of creating nanoparticle-enclosed drugs, which have, in test trials, proven to be extremely effective at destroying cancer cells in tumors. In charge of the work is head of process development, Greg Troiano, who over... |
4 November 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Scientists at the Washington University in St Louis have recently developed a new type of delivery vehicle for very small molecules, in the form of an amazingly small, smart polymer nanobox. The structure, a few nanometers in size, is able to open up and release its contents when exposed to light, and also to reseal ... |
2 November 2009
08:29 GMT |
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Organic electronics, plastic electronics or polymer electronics are the names given to a new branch of electronic products that relies on polymers and molecules based on carbon for its traits. The carbon is the main chemical element that found life on the planet, hence the term “organic.” Experts say that... |
29 September 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Liquid salts are among the most promising materials in the world today, because research into their properties could unlock the secrets to building better lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells, organic cells and other novel applications. Tom Smith, a Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) scientist is, for instance, wor... |
17 September 2009
03:56 GMT |
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In a new study published online in the September 13th issue of the journal Nature Materials, experts at the Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT) and the University of Ulm announced that they had managed to get high-resolution, 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell for the first time. Knowing the nanosca... |
14 September 2009
14:21 GMT |
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In most of the world's largest cities, there is bound to be a vibrant culture of street artists, who use paint, markers and wheat paste to leave their mark on the streets. But, at times, these drawings are done on old, historic buildings, defacing them, as the artists do not distinguish between common buildings ... |
11 September 2009
02:38 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, one of the innovations that will make the computers and electronics of tomorrow run faster and better will consist of printed circuits. Experts have already devised organic circuits that are cheap, efficient and printable, but the trouble is that, unlike their inorganic counterparts, they require two mat... |
24 August 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Bioengineers at the Duke University have recently managed to achieve a groundbreaking objective, when they have created a special method that allows for the addition of protective polymer molecules to protein drugs. The new “armor” allows for the drugs to operate at an increased efficiency inside the body... |
20 August 2009
18:21 GMT |
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Removing oil or grease stains from kitchen and bathroom countertops, mirrors and garage floors with nothing but water may seem like a thing of science fiction, but the tools to do this are already in the works. At the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) annual meeting, in Washington DC, experts have showcased a ne... |
17 August 2009
03:44 GMT |
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For a long time, the drink industry has been troubled by a very serious obstacle in providing consumers with better products – the fact that their drinks degrade over time on account of chemical reactions that go on inside. A large part of these reactions is caused by riboflavin (vitamin B2), which catalyzes ph... |
3 August 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Warwick have recently devised a new class of high-tech foams, when they have realized that exposing particular mixtures of polymer particles and other materials to sudden freeze-drying drastically modifies their internal structure. Chemists and engineers at the university report that... |
28 July 2009
20:11 GMT |
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Australian experts from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have announced that they are working on a new class of flame-retardant materials, called HIPS (Hybrid Inorganic Polymer System). Reportedly, the innovation is able to withstand temperatures of up to 1,000° Celsius (18... |
21 July 2009
17:01 GMT |
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