Sentences with phrase «by organic polymers»

The natural version, also called nacre, is found on the inner shell of some molluscs, where it is built up of layers of the mineral aragonite separated by organic polymers such as chitin.

Not exact matches

After electrochemical treatment with an organic acid and spin - coating with a polymer layer, the h - BN was electrochemically exfoliated by generating hydrogen bubbles at the rhodium surface.

This definition opens up the category for metallic polymers and other organic metals, which have been made by researchers and employed in high - tech devices.

When I was at Bell Labs, I was surrounded by amazing organic chemists who could cook up all kinds of interesting polymers and organic molecules that we could use to build transistors.

The paper by polymer scientists Soo - Young Park and A-Ra Cho of Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea, describes a method to create a type of so - called «hybrid» film, composed of both inorganic and organic materials.

Its refractive index can be changed simply by changing the organic polymer.

When Hubbes exposed vaccinated trees to the virulent strain of the fungus, he found that the trees were ready to mount a defence, trapping the fungus in infected cells by hardening the walls of these cells with lignin — an organic polymer in plant cell walls that imparts rigidity.

Here we describe an affordable, safe, and scalable battery system, which uses organic polymers as the charge - storage material in combination with inexpensive dialysis membranes, which separate the anode and the cathode by the retention of the non-metallic, active (macro-molecular) species, and an aqueous sodium chloride solution as the electrolyte.

With the development of plastic materials by organic chemists during the Second World War, the capacitor industry began to replace paper with thinner polymer films.

In their research, published in Nature Materials in March, they showed they could align the small crystals within the plastic polymer by applying a thin layer of organic molecules on to the surface.