Polymers – Page 20
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Research
Spinach chlorophyll activates polymer production line
Light energy channelled into biomedically useful molecules
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Swellable polymer sponges up CO2
‘Knitted benzene’ polymer network outperforms commercial carbon dioxide sorbents under harsh conditions
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Plant plastics reach for the stars
Star-shaped additives transform rice starch into a useful transparent plastic
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Polymer changes colour in the heat of the moment
Stabilising thermochromic polymers with peptides significantly increases their responsiveness
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Ben Zhong Tang: Polymers for a bright future
Ben Zhong Tang talks to Katie Bayliss about alkyne polymers and aggregation induced emission
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Podcast
Chemistry World podcast - June 2014
We speak to Tom Brown, the 2014 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year, and find out why cells spend so much time doing nothing
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Research
Flue gas reclaimed as polymer feedstock
Closing the carbon cycle reduces both greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel depletion
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New thermoset plastics simple to recycle
IBM researchers create polymers that breakdown in acidic conditions
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Feature
Green packaging blues
Plastic packaging is ubiquitous, but uses precious resources and goes straight to waste. Bea Perks takes a look
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Polymer sets new self-healing record
Material mimics animal healing forming a scaffold to support repair of holes over 3cm wide
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Careers
The plastics surgeon
Sarah Houlton takes a ‘Peek’ at the career of polymer chemist Alice Matthews
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Feature
Paving the way to polythene
It is 50 years since Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta won the Nobel prize for their work on polymers
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Research
Polymer regenerates all by itself
Elastomers heal themselves independently thanks to metathesis reaction between aromatic disulphides
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Podcast
Polyacetylene
David Lindsay explores the first of the conducting organic polymers, polyacetylene
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Research
First polymer LED that stays lit up when stretched and scrunched
Wafer thin light-emitting film pushes flexible electronics to the limits
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Podcast
Cyanoacrylate
It repairs objects, heals wounds and fights crime. It puts the ‘super’ in superglue. Emma Stoye introduces cyanoacrylate
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