Non-stick gum could save shoes

"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...

Non-stick gum could save shoes

"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...

Pain-free Needles are High Tech Ceramic Polymer

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.

Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery

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...

Ultra-Tough Nanotech Materials

"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...

10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007

"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...

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