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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Advance Polybag, Inc. and Superbag Operating, Ltd. supported Hilex Poly's victory in the settlement with ChicoBag Company. Earlier this year, the two companies jointly filed a lawsuit with Hilex Poly to prevent ChicoBag from using misleading and deceptive information in its marketing of reusable bags. With Advance Polybag and Superbag's encouragement and to simplify the proceeding, Hilex Poly took the lead in settling the lawsuit through a mutual...

HARTSVILLE, S.C., Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hilex Poly Company LLC, a leading manufacturer and recycler of plastic bags, films and wraps, and ChicoBag reached a settlement agreement resolving a lawsuit in which Hilex Poly contended that ChicoBag was making false marketing claims. The agreement resulted in an undisclosed settlement payment to Hilex Poly. Earlier this year, Hilex Poly filed a complaint in U.S. District Court of the District of South Carolina to stop the ongoing use of...

Decades after the bullets have stopped flying, wars can leave behind a lingering danger: landmines that maim civilians and render land unusable for agriculture. Minefields are a humanitarian disaster throughout the world, and now researchers in Scotland have designed a new device that could more reliably sense explosives, helping workers to identify and deactivate unexploded mines. The prototype sensor features a thin film of polymer whose many electrons jump into higher energy levels when...

Newly synthesized polymer, fitted with molecular pincers of carefully tailored structure, effectively captures nicotine molecules and its analogues. The polymer can be used for fabrication of sensitive and selective chemical sensors to determine nicotine in solutions, and in the near future also in gases. Moreover, the polymer is suitable for slow, controlled release of nicotine, e.g., for therapeutic purposes.The collaboration of researchers of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the...

Gram for gram, novel carbon nanofiber-filled coatings devised by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Texas A&M University outperformed conventional flame retardants used in the polyurethane foam of upholstered furniture and mattresses by at least 160 percent and perhaps by as much as 1,130 percent.The impressive test results, reported in the journal Polymer,* suggest that significant fire-safety advantages can be gained by coating polyurethane...

GLEN ALLEN, Va., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has released its latest report on the transparent conductor market. In its new report the firm states that the market opportunities for the transparent conducting oxides, polymers and nanomaterials used in display, photovoltaics and other applications will exceed $6.9 billion in revenues by 2016. The report notes that while the market will continue to be dominated by Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), transparent...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed a multiple-compartment gel capsule that could be used to simultaneously deliver drugs of different types. The researchers used a simple "one-pot" method to prepare the hydrogel capsules, which measure less than one micron.The capsule's structure -- hollow except for polymer chains tethered to the interior of the shell -- provides spatially-segregated compartments that make it a good candidate for multi-drug...

Designing new materials depends upon understanding the properties of today's materials. One such material, Nafion ©, is a polymer that efficiently conducts ions (a polymer electrolyte) and water through its nanostructure, making it important for many energy-related industrial applications, including in fuel cells, organic batteries, and reverse-osmosis water purification. But since Nafion was invented 50 years ago, scientists have only been able to speculate about how to build new...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Serina Therapeutics, Inc. President and CEO Randall Moreadith, MD, PhD, reported today that Serina has closed on a $9.5 million financing round to advance its lead oncology candidate SER-203 into a Phase I study in humans in early 2012. "We are pleased to report to our existing and new shareholders the closing of the financing round that was launched in late 2010. This is a very significant milestone for Serina Therapeutics, and will allow us...

MONROVIA, Calif., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- STAAR Surgical Company (NASDAQ: STAA), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of minimally invasive ophthalmic lenses which go inside the eye, today announced two strategically important regulatory approvals. The Company received CE Mark approval for the KS-SP Preloaded Single Piece Hydrophobic Acrylic intraocular lens (IOL). In addition, its Visian® Implantable Collamer® Lens (ICL(TM)) V4 design was approved for marketing in...