Latest Polymer chemistry Stories
Gains in speed, quality and current over conventional production techniques hold promise for both research and commercial productionProfessor Guillermo Bazan and a team of postgraduate researchers at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS) today announced a major advance in the synthesis of organic polymers for plastic solar cells. Bazan's team:   * reduced reaction time by 99%, from 48 hours to 30 minutes, and   * increased average molecular...
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. Reportlinker Adds World Thermoplastic Elastomers http://www.reportlinker.com/p0155028/Reportlinker-Adds-World-Thermoplastic-Elastomers.html Global demand to rise 5.9% annually through 2013 World demand for thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) is forecast to rise 5.9 percent per year through 2013 to 4.75 million metric tons. Value gains will expand 6.6 percent per year...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Repurpose Compostables, Inc.®, a full service bioplastic manufacturing, sales and distribution company based in Los Angeles, announced today the debut of their brand new line of PLA cold cups and PLA cutlery at incredibly competitive prices. Repurpose products are high performance and can withstand heats of up to 220 degrees, however are able to biodegrade in 90 days. Repurpose products are also non-toxic, keeping harmful chemicals out of our food...
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- SoluLinK, Inc., a leader in quality conjugation products and services, introduces the TurboLink Conjugation Catalyst, making conjugation at least 20 times faster than before with 100% conjugate yields for antibodies, oligos, peptides and proteins. Up to now, researchers, conjugation experts, manufacturers and assay developers have traded conjugation speed for poor yields, poor quality and more labor and time consuming chromatography to make useable...
SOLON, Ohio, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- HDT Engineered Technologies (HDT), a world leader in next-generation expeditionary systems and engineering, will unveil its new global brand and corporate alignment at this year's London-based Defense Systems & Equipment International (DSEi) 2009. The new brand represents HDT's united family of businesses including: BASE-X, Hunter Manufacturing, New World, PowerSystems International, and Vertigo. For the first time, HDT is exhibiting the company's...
LONDON, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 Frost & Sullivan European Polylactic Production Technology Innovation of the Year Award in the field of Polylactic Acid Production goes to PURAC, Sulzer Chemtech and Synbra Technology for jointly developing a new, cost-effective polymerisation process to produce high-quality polylactic acid (PLA) from a biorenewable resource. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) "The companies are lauded for their efforts at realising a...
One of the long standing problems in the drinks industry is how to prevent chemical processes in the drinks compromising their taste, quality and shelf life. In particular, riboflavin (vitamin B2) is responsible for driving photooxidation reactions that affect the flavor of many drinks and so they often have to be packaged in light-shielded containers.Now Börje Sellergren, at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, and colleagues have developed a way of removing riboflavin. They...
U.S. chemists say they've created a way to grow molecular wire brushes that conduct electrical charges -- a first step in developing biological fuel cells. University of Georgia Assistant Professor Jason Locklin and graduate students Nicholas Marshall and Kyle Sontag grew polymer brushes made of chains of thiophene and benzene attached to metal surfaces as ultra-thin films. The molecular wires are actually polymer chains that have been grown from a metal surface at very high density, Locklin...
HDT Engineering Services Discusses the Future of Prosthetic Capabilities FREDERICKSBURG, Va., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Experts from HDT Engineering Services (previously known as New World Associates), a world-class engineering and product development provider to military and homeland security markets, recently participated in a live interview with Arlington, Va.-based News Channel 8. The prime-time discussion centered on the future of robotics and prosthetic technology and its potential...
Dutch scientists say they have developed a new way of starting chemical reactions, using mechanical forces to control the catalytic activity. Eindhoven University of Technology researchers say their new technology paves the way to developing materials capable of repairing themselves under the influence of mechanical tension. The scientists -- Alessio Piermattei, Karthik Sivasubramanian and Professor Rint Sijbesma -- said they are the first to demonstrate a catalyst can be switched from a...
