Sentences with phrase «of flexible polymer»
Making electronic paper that is bendable will require the use of the flexible polymer - based circuitry.
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This will include Dr James Stern from Albis discussing plastics in healthcare applications, Professor Alexander Seifalian of The London BioScience Innovation Centre covering the development of medical devices using graphene nanomaterials and Lorna O'Gara from Ultrapolymers explaining polymer innovation in healthcare and inter-material replacement for flexible applications.
«Flexible packaging isn't made of pure plastic polymers but made by blending several materials which make recycling nearly impossible,» she said.
The help of a polymer compatibilizer, DuPont ™ Fusabond ®, makes it possible to reuse this mixed material waste stream for products such as rigid or flexible corrugated pipes and automotive lubricant bottles.
Polymer Packaging, a leading flexible packaging enterprise, announced the opening of a new 54,000 sq. ft. facility in Allendale, MI.
The cones are made of polymer so they're flexible, durable, and resilient which means they'll last a long time.
The bottom layer of the material, described April 3 at the Materials Research Society spring meeting, features carbon nanotube pores embedded within a flexible synthetic polymer film.
The conformational dynamics of individual, flexible polymers in steady shear flow were directly observed by the use of video fluorescence microscopy.
The researchers made the printed batteries flexible and stretchable by incorporating a hyper - elastic polymer material made from isoprene, one of the main ingredients in rubber, and polystyrene, a resin - like component.
Wang, a graduate student in the lab of Stoyan Smoukov, Ph.D., at the University of Cambridge (U.K.) suspected that a flexible conducting polymer - based material from another project they were working on could be a better alternative.
Last June Ingber's team reported that it had placed human lung lining cells and human capillary cells on either side of a porous, flexible polymer membrane.
Inspired by geckos» sticky feet, scientists are developing adhesive tapes — by rooting columns of nanotubes in flexible polymer pieces — that stick many times better than a gecko's foot.
Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have developed thin, flexible polymer - based materials for use in microelectrode arrays that record activity more deeply in the brain and with more specific placement than ever before.
«Electrically conductive polymers are used in OLEDs, for example, which can also be manufactured on flexible substrates,» explains Tobias Kraus, Head of the research group Structure Formation at INM.
A new, lightweight composite material for energy storage in flexible electronics, electric vehicles and aerospace applications has been experimentally shown to store energy at operating temperatures well above current commercial polymers, according to a team of Penn State scientists.
The researchers begin by creating the body of the bio-bot from a flexible polymer.
And all this must happen on 1.5 square centimeters of polymer that's transparent, flexible, nonirritating, fluid - friendly, and free of all the toxic materials normally used in glowing microelectronic components.
The PTMA is in a class of electrically active polymers that could bring inexpensive transparent solar cells; antistatic and antiglare coatings for cellphone displays; antistatic coverings for aircraft to protect against lightning strikes; flexible flash drives; and thermoelectric devices, which generate electricity from heat.
«The coated separator is quite flexible and porous, like a conventional polymer separator, so it has negligible effect on the flow of lithium ions between the cathode and the anode.
First, he created 20 - centimetre - long flexible ribbons made of a piezoelectric polymer that generates electrical currents when perturbed, either by wind or when rain drops fall on it.
«This method should allow synthesis of gram quantities of few - layer - thick molybdenum disulfide sheets, which is very crucial for applications such as flexible batteries, supercapacitors, and polymer composites.
The nanogenerator itself includes thin electrode sheets on the front and back of the mesoporous polymer film, and the researchers can attach this soft, flexible film seamlessly to flat, rough or curvy surfaces, including human skin.
This new form of carbon - polymer sheet is flexible, nontoxic and mechanically strong, in addition to being non-flammable.
Although the use of rigid metal and plastic parts tends to result in stiff, mechanical motion, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) is experimenting with the use of a single piece of flexible silicon and urethane polymer to create robotic fish that smoothly wriggle through the water much like their natural counterparts.
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour uses commercial lasers to create thin, flexible supercapacitors by burning patterns into common polymers.
Researchers at Rice University have created flexible, patterned sheets of multilayer graphene from a cheap polymer by burning it with a computer - controlled laser.
Venkataraman explains, «We understood the idea of controlling the arrangement, but we thought, What if we use a flexible polymer, not a rigid tube?
That may not be so far away — a team of researchers at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea has developed a flexible, wearable 20 mm x 20 mm polymer sensor that can directly measure the degree and occurrence on the skin of goose bumps (technically known as «piloerection»), which is caused by sudden changes in body temperature or emotional states.
Simple fabrication process of flexible based micro-cone array (MCA) structure textured on transparent polymer substrate was successfully demonstrated in this work for enhancing the photovoltaic performance.
In addition, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign co-principal investigator John Rogers and colleagues published a proof - of - concept study in PNAS in August about new methods for creating flexible black - and - white polymer displays that can change color to match their surroundings.
Each Organ - Chip, which is composed of a clear flexible polymer, is about the size of a AA battery and contains tiny hollow channels lined with living cells.
The information they gather could help improve the design and performance of organic polymers: flexible, stretchable, biocompatible electronic materials that could be used to make everything from printable solar cells to brain implants that restore movement to paralyzed limbs.
The long lasting coverage is due to the famous NARS formula, consisting of treated pigments and flexible polymers unique to their brand.
The focus of Polymer Vision has always been flexible displays, and they were certainly among the first to show off such a thing when we heard about the Readius in 2007.
The system's bladder is made of durable and flexible semitransparent polymer with a scale on the front for showing the remaining fluid volume.
The new coating that the team has created consists of a network of linked copper nanowires that can be deposited directly on rigid glass or flexible polymer sheets through a process that is scalable for mass production.
These elegant arched structures are made of fiber reinforced polymer modular components which are durable, flexible and waterproof.
All those swirling lines are panels of a dielectric elastomer wrapped over a flexible polymer core.
The creation of polymers that can shift their shape when exposed to different temperatures could open up a world of amazing applications from drug delivery devices that only release medication when the wearer has a fever to flexible, lightweight actuators that turn solar panels to track the sun.
They had to find the right blend of polymers to be both flexible and strong, which turned out to be a one with long - chain polymers that have strands like spaghetti and one with shorter chain polymers that act like a scaffold.