News tagged with polymer beads

Engineers use droplet microfluidics to create glucose-sensing microbeads

Tiny beads may act as minimally invasive glucose sensors for a variety of applications in cell culture systems and tissue engineering

Technology / Engineering

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New polymer that changes color instantly in response to external magnetic field (w/Video)

A research team led by a chemist at the University of California, Riverside has fabricated microscopic polymer beads that change color instantly and reversibly when external magnetic fields acting upon the microspheres change ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 2

Solution to beading-saliva mystery has practical purposes

Researchers have discovered precisely why strands of some fluids containing long molecules called polymers form beads when stretched, findings that could be used to improve industrial processes and for administering ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tiny particles can deliver antioxidant enzyme to injured heart cells

Researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed microscopic polymer beads that can deliver an antioxidant enzyme made naturally by the body into the heart.

Chemistry / Polymers

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The acid test: 21st century pH meter

Modern methods for mass production of biological agents and fine chemicals require precise control of pH. However within these systems it is not always possible to use traditional methods for measuring acidity and alkalinity. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find replacement for rare material indium tin oxide

Dutch researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO), an important material used in displays for all kinds of everyday products such as TVs, telephones ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 4