News tagged with propylene oxide
Sorted building blocks: Poly(propylene carbonate) stereogradient
(PhysOrg.com) -- The properties of polymers—long chain molecules from which plastics are made—depend on the type of individual building blocks in them, as well as the order they are in and how they ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Report outlines knowledge gaps for 20 suspected carcinogens
A new report from the American Cancer Society and other world-leading health groups identifies gaps in research for 20 suspected carcinogens whose potential to cause cancer is as yet unresolved. The report is designed to ...
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Scientists develop environmentally friendly way to produce propylene oxide using silver nanoclusters
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new class of silver-based catalysts for the production of the industrially useful chemical propylene oxide that is ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Oxygen in place of chlorine: Towards a more environmentally friendly propylene oxide synthesis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Propylene oxide is an important bulk chemical that is used primarily in the production of polyurethane plastics. Currently, propylene oxide is usually made from propylene (propene) in a process that uses ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 01, 2009 |
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7 things you may not know about catalysis
Catalysts are one of those things that few people think much about, beyond perhaps in high school chemistry, but they make the world tick. Almost everything in your daily life depends on catalysts: cars, Post-It ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Self-assembling solar panels a step closer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists Robert J. Knuesel and Heiko O. Jacobs of the University of Minnesota have developed a way to make tiny solar cells self-assemble.
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Pluronic L-81 is a potential anti-diabetic drug?
Pluronic surfactants are synthetic copolymers based on ethylene oxide and propylene oxide. It has been reported that a nonionic L-81, effectively inhibits absorption of dietary lipids from the intestine and secretion of VLDL ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Scientists discover new platinum catalysts for the dehydrogenation of propane
(PhysOrg.com) -- The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Alternatives to ozone-depleting pesticide studied
Methyl bromide, an odorless, colorless gas used as an agricultural pesticide, was introduced in the 1980s as an effective way to control weeds and increase fruit yields. Agricultural production nurseries around ...
May 07, 2008 |
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Temperature-Sensitive Nanoparticles Open New Avenues for Drug Delivery
Many types of nanoparticles can cross the cell membrane and deliver their therapeutic payload into tumor cells. In some instances, however, nanoparticles can become trapped inside endosomes, distinct compartments within a ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 03, 2006 |
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A New Leap in Drug delivery
by Dr. Bikram Lamba For most of the industry’s existence, pharmaceuticals have primarily consisted of simple, fast-acting chemical compounds that are dispensed orally or as injectables. During the past three decades formulatio ...
Aug 30, 2005 |
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