Science news articles about 'polymer layers'

  • Polymers 'battered' with nanoparticles could create self healing paints and clever packaging

    ... simply and cheaply covers small particles of polymer with a layer of silica-based nanoparticles. The final ... second simple step which deposited another polymer layer on top of the already silica based ...
  • Silver nanoparticles give polymer solar cells a boost

    ... Even with the relatively low production cost of polymers compared to other solar cell materials, you ... each silver particle in an ultra-thin polymer layer -- a different polymer than the light-absorbing ...
  • Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, UC San Diego engineers say

    ... covered the nanowire-electrode platform in the organic polymer, P3HT, also known as poly(3-hexylthiophene ... holes are forced to travel through a thin polymer layer before reaching their electrode. Today ...
  • Tiny capsules deliver

    A tiny particle syringe composed of polymer layers and nanoparticles may provide drug delivery that targets diseased cells without harming the rest of the body, according to a team of chemical ...
  • Strength through diversity

    ... ®, an inorganic-organic hybrid polymer developed by ISC. The micro-lens structure is imprinted into these polymer layers and cured with UV light. This is done on both sides in one mirror-symmetric ...
  • Capsules encapsulated

    ... an enzyme can be securely anchored to the cholesterol units and thus attached to the polymer film. Subsequently, more polymer layers are added and then cross-linked by disulfide bridges into a gel by ...
  • Researchers create freestanding nanoparticle films without fillers

    ... are deposited. Then, after the deposition process is completed, they dissolve (sacrifice) the polymer layer to free the nanoparticle film. According to the researchers, films made in this fashion ...
  • Troublesome green algae serve as coating substrate in record-setting battery

    ... in obtaining a much higher charge capacity than was previously possible with batteries based on advanced polymers is primarily due to the extreme thinness of the polymer layer," says Gustav Nyström.
  • Color sensors for better vision

    ... the three colors by a machine which coats the sensor disk propels with a micrometer-thick polymer layer. Using UV light and a mask which is only transparent on the desired pixels, the dye is fixed at ...
  • New look for antiques

    ... at the University of Florence have now developed a technique to effectively remove such old polymer layers from sensitive historic artworks. As the researchers report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, ...

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