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Toys Made of Liquid Wood

Saturday, December 13th, 2008 - 12:14:41 - Anuradha Menon

Most plastics are based on petroleum. A bio-plastic that consists of one hundred percent renewable raw materials helps to conserve this resource...

Plastic as a Conductor

Thursday, December 11th, 2008 - 16:09:14 - Anuradha Menon

Plastic that conducts electricity and metal that weighs no more than a feather? It sounds like an upside-down world. Yet researchers have succeeded...

Plastic as a Cure for Parkinson's Disease

Monday, August 25th, 2008 - 10:00:06 - Anuradha Menon

Plastic coatings could help neural implants treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease and macular degeneration. The coatings encourage neurons in...

Cooling Plastic

Monday, August 11th, 2008 - 18:55:40 - Iddo Genuth

Thin films of a new polymer developed at Penn State change temperature in response to changing electric fields. The Penn State researchers, who...

Conducting Plastics
Friday, July 11th, 2008 - Roni Barr
Alberto Morpurgo and his team of researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands recently attached a...

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Plastics Unite to Make Unexpected 'Metal'

Monday, June 16th, 2008 - 08:13:37 - Ehud Rattner

Jamming the right two pieces of plastic together creates a thin but strongly conducting channel along the junction that acts like a metal, say Dutch...

High Tech Watermark Against Product Piracy

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 - 23:17:06 - Iddo Genuth

Researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick have devised a high tech way to add Anti-counterfeiting to plastic products as they are created in...

Strong, Light, Transparent Plastic
Monday, December 3rd, 2007 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Researchers from the University of Michigan (UM) have developed a composite plastic, which they say is strong as steel, but...