Canada’s Latest Money - A New Meaning To Spending With Plastic
Known as the 2011 Polymer Series, these bank notes which are replacing the Canadian Journey Series (2001–2006) notes that according to the Bank...
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""In the past 20 to 30 years, researchers have been able to shrink the size of devices and the size of the patterns that you need to make those devices, following the use of the same types of lithographic...
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"Getting chewing gum on your shoes could be a thing of the past if a new non-stick gum is a success.Revolymer says its new Clean Gum has a special polymer that makes it far less sticky.The company announced today it has raised €12.75m from new investors as well as an...
"Getting chewing gum on your shoes could be a thing of the past if a new non-stick gum is a success.Revolymer says its new Clean Gum has a special polymer that makes it far less sticky.The company announced today it has raised €12.75m from new investors as well as an...
This new polymerization technology could some day take the pain out of
injections and blood draws. Clustered together on a patch, these
microneedles can deliver drugs or draw blood efficiently as standard
hypodermic needles.
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"Redefining plastic money
An environmentalist Aussie goes to Safeway and buys some organic food and goes to the check out counter. The checkout clerks asks him what kind of bags would he prefer.
“Paper or...
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Japanese people continue to impress me. I don't know if they invented this 'flexible battery thing', but, I'll repeat myself, their researches impress me.
A new type of battery invented in Japan, in the University of Waseda.
This is a flexible rechargeable battery, based on...
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"Researchers have used clay nanoparticles to modify a polymer material, making it 20 times stiffer, 4 times tougher, and able to withstand temperatures that are more than twice as hot. The new materials could eventually be used in rugged lightweight fabrics, less-bulky...
"Bendable Concrete
The nickname for Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) is self-explanatory: bendable concrete. Specially coated microscopic polymer fibers slide past each other instead of snapping under stress, so ECC bends without breaking. The material has been used...