... be averted.
“What’s cool about this discovery is not just that we have better understanding of polymer films, which are widely used in a range of coating and interface technologies,” said coauthor ...
... storage and photovoltaics and open new vistas. It's a faster, simpler way to make defect-free thin polymer films with the smallest domains ever and ultradense ordering, saving months ...
... they could control the extent of bacterial adhesion to surfaces by manipulating the mechanical stiffness of polymer films called polyelectrolyte multilayers. Thus, the films could be designed to ...
SAN DIEGO, May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. chemists say new spray-on polymer films they've developed might become the basis of portable devices that can spot nitrogen-based explosives.
... discovered that at very short length scales the polymer doesn't play by the rules. From buttons ... together like cooked spaghetti. However, when the polymer film starts with a smaller initial thickness ...
Chemists in Japan have created light-driven polymer films that walk like inchworms and move like robotic arms
... basic research may lead. For decades materials scientists have been experimenting with a corkscrew-like polymer structure called a gyroid. Now an international team of researchers has shown that the ...
Layers of plastic, much thinner than a strand of hair—this type of ultrathin polymer film is of great interest to scientists and engineers. Applications include protective coatings, for example. A ...
... resolution, how the distribution of small organic semiconductor molecules embedded in polymer films changed with depth—the films are less than 100 nanometers thick. In the thin films originally ...
... temperature, bob to the surface of a layer of a thin polymer film and then can reversibly recede below ... coming to the surface of water. Reheating the particles at a polymer surface sinks them back below ...
... electrical conductors. Relatively small concentrations of nanotubes can change a normally insulating polymer film to a transparent electrical conductor. Potential applications range from transparent ...
... super dense, defect-free, thin polymer films is the fastest, most efficient method ever ... topography with an inherent orientation. A thin copolymer film layer then was applied causing the underlying ...
... from one to tens of thousands of graphene nanoribbons at a time. The ribbons can easily be removed from the polymer film and transferred onto any other substrate, making it easy to create items such ...
... produced by several steps. First, a layer of polymer is deposited onto small silica spheres ... cholesterol units and thus attached to the polymer film. Subsequently, more polymer layers are added and then ...
... -layer contact lens with an inner drug-bearing biodegradable polymer film known as PLGA. Both PLGA and pHEMA (used for the coating) have been well studied and are already approved for ocular ...
