Polymers – Page 20
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Research
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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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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Feature
BPA: friend or foe?
With media-fuelled anxiety over bisphenol A continuing to rise, Nina Notman looks beyond the headlines at this incredibly widely used polycarbonate monomer
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Feature
Polymer, heal thyself
Materials that can mend themselves sound like science fiction, but they are part of an active area of polymer chemistry. Nina Notman stitches together the different strands of research
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