Science news articles about 'polymer research'

  • A Decade of Hi-Payoff, Hi-Throughput Combinatorial Research

    ... a research effort at NIST to develop novel and improved "combinatorial" techniques for polymer research--an effort that became the NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC)--realized economic benefits ...
  • Scientists synthesize graphene-like material: Polymer with honeycomb structure

    ... structure. Physicists at Empa, Switzerland, together with chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, have, for the first time, succeeded in synthesizing a graphene- ...
  • Graphene-based gadgets may be just years away

    ... Professor Andre Geim FRS and Royal Society Research Fellow Dr Kostya Novoselov. This incredible ... team from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany recently reported in Nano Letters ...
  • Using nanotechnology to create high-performance materials

    ... Helmholtz researchers at GKSS. The project is being coordinated from Geesthacht by the director of the Institute of Polymer Research, Prof. Volker Abetz. "One of the aims of our first meeting will be ...
  • Switchable bio-adhesion

    ... Golm. A possible solution is the stimuli-responsive polymer developed by a team led by Dr. Jean ... ois Lutz of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP, assisted by colleagues at the IBMT ...
  • Almost frictionless

    ... a joint project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam and the Mainz-based ... makes them very expensive. So the researchers now plan to simplify the synthesis process, ...
  • Gaps in adhesion

    ... Butt, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, and Professor Wolfgang Tremel ... few nanometers, they pick up a single chain of the polymer in the same way someone would pick ...
  • Vigilant windows

    ... does his rounds. A novel motion sensor developed by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm and for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in Berlin ...
  • High Tech Security Glass

    ... you won’t realize it’s there. Worried? Thanks to a novel new motion sensor developed by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, you should be. read more
  • New Parkinson's treatment found

    A faulty protein that leads to Parkinson's disease can be fixed using a man-made polymer, researchers have discovered.
  • 'Chemical Nose' May Sniff Out Cancer Earlier

    Using a 'chemical nose' array of nanoparticles and polymers, researchers have developed a fundamentally new, more effective way to differentiate not only between healthy and cancerous cells but ...
  • Proteins in gel

    ... and the protein cannot perform its function. Research scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm have solved this problem. "We have developed a gel – a ...
  • Graffiti-free historic buildings

    ... é Laschewsky, who heads the relevant research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam. As part of an EU-sponsored project, Laschewsky's team and partners from ...
  • New Route To Nano Self-assembly Found

    By adding select small molecules to mixtures of nanoparticles and polymers, researchers can direct the self-assembly of the nanoparticles into arrays of one, two and even three dimensions with no ...

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