A patent-pending technology to produce nanospheres developed by a research team at North Dakota State University, Fargo, could enable advances across multiple industries, including electronics, manufacturing, ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Researchers from AIST have developed microalga-based bioplastics mainly from constituents extracted from Euglena, a species of microalga.

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 28, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Scientists are investigating how shell waste from crustaceans could be turned into polymer precursors as a substitute to petroleum-derived solutions.

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 07, 2013 not rated yet 1

(Phys.org)—Irradiation with light is an established method for initiating polymerization or crosslinking (curing) in the production of plastics. American researchers are now using light to retroactively ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Feb 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—There's hardly a moment in modern life that doesn't involve electronic devices, whether they're guiding you to a destination by GPS or deciding which incoming messages merit a beep, ring or vibration. ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jan 14, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a technique to significantly improve the quality of bio-based plastic packaging.

Chemistry - Materials Science

Dec 04, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

"You look at the material world and see objects and how you can use them. I look at the material world and see a fascinating hidden life which is within our control, if we can only understand how it works," ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Nov 16, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) -- University of Oregon chemists have identified a catalyst that could dramatically reduce the amount of waste made in the production of methyl methacrylate, a monomer used in the large-scale manufacturing ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Aug 21, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have identified how a plant's skin is assembled.

Biology - Biotechnology

May 22, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) -- Thanks to advances in polymer chemistry and a wide variety of monomer constituents to choose from, the world of multiblock polymers is wide open. These polymers can result in an astonishing array ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Apr 26, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A relatively fast, easy and inexpensive technique for inducing nanorods - rod-shaped semiconductor nanocrystals - to self-assemble into one-, two- and even three-dimensional macroscopic structures ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Feb 01, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

A special group of proteins, the so-called chaperons, helps other proteins to obtain their correct conformation. Until now scientists supposed that hydrolyzing ATP provides the energy for the large conformational ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 13, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

A critical step in advancing medical treatment is the development of novel drug delivery methods. While a simple tablet, taken by the patient with a sip of water, may be the easiest way to administer a drug, ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Dec 23, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it seems like science fiction, microscopic "factories" in which nanomachines produce tiny structures for miniaturized components or nanorobots that destroy tumor cells within the body ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Sep 02, 2011 4.9 / 5 (7) 0 |

Scientists led by Carnegie Mellon University chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski are using electricity from a battery to drive atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a widely used method of creating industrial plastics. ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Mar 31, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 1 |