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Synopsis: Materials: Classes of materials: Plastic:

capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics, today announced that its technology has set a new record for generating electricity

which generates electricity on see-through glass and flexible plastics with colored tints popular to skyscraper glass.

capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics, today made public never-before-seen images of the Company'#s largest area, high-performance Solarwindow#arrays.

which can be dissolved into liquid form and applied to a variety of surfaces such as flexible plastics and glass;

which generates electricity on see-through glass and flexible plastics with colored tints popular to skyscraper glass.

Rogers says the whole system is about as stiff as the plastic used to make food wrappers.

Complex components, plastics and other substances in TV products can create significant potential to contribute to high chemical and formaldehyde exposures, according to UL Environment.

The whey is used as a bio-coating a biodegradable film-for the plastic, offering additional protection while also being recyclable.

Tests ran on the Oxygen Transmission Rate (OTR) of the packaging showed that a layer of whey improved the protection level 30-fold compared to conventional plastic films.

Additionally, the plastic based on whey is easily recyclable because the whey product can be ashedoff from the plastic layers by treating it with special enzymes('protease'and'alcalase),

This platform uses oll-to-roll manufacturingwhich is the process of creating electronic devices on a roll of plastic or foil.

and as a result, high-quality new plastics from old plastics will soon be a possibility.

e g. turning a used plastic bottle into a lower grade product, or rubber residues to floor coverings or safety crash pads.

The new plastic compounds are called elastomer powder modified thermoplastics or EPMT for short. They are made up of rubber residues crushed into elastomer powder that are blended with thermoplastics.

Dr Holger Wack, scientist at UMSICHT, explains the production process:''In the first step, the rubber residues, that can be meter-long rubber pieces,

This is then conducted to the melt-mix process with thermoplastics and additives. Here we use, for example, polypropylene as a thermoplastic material.'

only 20 per cent is made up by the thermoplastics, 'says Wack. EPMT can be processed easily in injection mouldings and extrusion machines,

In recent years, dental correction orthodontics have used braces made from clear plastic polymer to good effect,

They may be made of metal, white porcelain or clear plastic. Braces made from a clear plastic polymer have a better aesthetics

when compared to metal braces, but they do come with their own set of problems, such as wear and tear within the mouth.

The solution that they came up with is to use very hard alumina nanoparticles and spread them evenly in the polysulfone,

'We measure out the plastic since the minimum that a normal machine can inject is 15 grams,

In particular, polysulfone is of interest in the biohealth field in the development of medical/surgical equipment:

#Ultravisc#Separating the plastic from the chaff To the untrained eye, recycling almost appears to be like some kind of alchemy, that medieval art

Recycling plastics has many environmental and economic advantages. With dwindling global supplies of oil, recycling offers a powerful means of reducing the amount of petroleum (currently standing at around 8%of global production) required to manufacture plastics, the production

of which is growing steadily. In fact the amount of plastic produced in the first decade of this century is believed to have exceeded all that was produced in the previous one.

Plastic waste, which has a tendency to spread to even the remotest environments, can take centuries to decompose,

Although reducing the amount of disposable plastic products manufactured offers the most sustainable way forward,

The complex structure of plastic polymers makes the mixing of different plastics difficult or can result in weaker materials,

i e. the process of pushing the melted plastic through a special die which cuts or shapes it into the desired form,

The EU-funded project'Sensor-base ultrasonic viscosity control for the extrusion of recycled plastics'(Ultravisc) has broken the mould

"The ultrasonic technology is used to control the flow of the plastic through the production line and to control the properties of the plastics,

resulting in the production of a more consistent product,"explains Dr Paul Beaney, the technical manager at Cherry Plastics Group which coordinated the project."

"Ultrasonic technology had never been integrated into recycling technology before, so building the ultrasonic modulator was a big challenge,

and enables you to use more waste plastics in the process, thereby improving the environmental friendliness of the recycling process,

#Building new plastics with smart software Chemists can help create a wide range of plastics from polymers,

When chemists come up with a new idea for a plastic, it can sometimes involve a trial-and-error process of mixing elements in the laboratory.

and software company Cit about the need for modern software tools to design plastics from polymers. he new software tool helps us predict how different production processes affect the nanostructure of the polymers,

In addition, because many of these materials are derived plastics from fossil fuels, they also increase the impact on climate change.

With the above in mind, a European research project has developed new environmentally friendly materials that can replace oil-based plastic films used in packaging for food

These materials can compete with plastic films and other flexible packaging in terms of performance and cost, but have a much lower environmental impact.

'where the plastic with the insecticide-coated netting replaces a brick removed from a wall.

or even plastics. Fischer-Tropsch derived fuels are certified already and can be used by existing vehicles and aircraft without modifications of their engines or of fuel infrastructure.

but instead of printing with plastics, it deploys edible ingredients squeezed out of stainless steel capsules:""It's the same technology,

"but with plastics there's just one melting point, whereas with food it's different temperatures, consistencies and textures.

as food doesn't hold the shape as well as plastic.""The Barcelona-based startup behind the machine says it's the only one of its kind capable of printing a wide range of dishes, from sweet to savory."

The cap containing the blood sample is placed then onto the body of the clear plastic test kit

the team developed a special blend of polyurethane and an adhesive. The liquid polymer filled the mold

The team demonstrated the nanopillars could stick to plastics, fabric, paper, and metal, and they anticipate that the arrays will also transfer easily to glass and leather.

The prototype time capsule is made of clear plastic and is about the size of a pinkie.

For the Nature study Hone s team placed thin flakes of Mos2 on flexible plastic substrates

A polymer is a type of large molecule that forms plastics and other familiar materials. he field is rather immature it s in the infancy stagesays Luping Yu a professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago.

With this technique which Schroers calls thermoplastic forming BMGS can be shaped like plastics. As a consequence thermoplastic forming BMGS don t require massive amounts of energy.

From there Schroers focused on producing BMGS in sheets. That form he reasoned is the most conducive to practical manufacturing applications. eveloping a fabrication method for BMG sheets has been extremely difficult

which can be carried out as easily as the process for blow-molding plastics. Seeing the commercial potential for his technique Schroers launched his own company Supercool Metals.

The lowinginfrared light is guided to the edge of the plastic where it is converted to electricity by thin strips of photovoltaic solar cells. ecause the materials do not absorb

The setup adds a printed pinhole screen sandwiched between two layers of clear plastic to an ipod display to enhance image sharpness.

To overcome this challenge the team developed a special blend of polyurethane and an adhesive.

The team demonstrated the nanopillars could stick to plastics fabric paper and metal and they anticipate that the arrays will also transfer easily to glass and leather.

The transducer is made of a mixture of a spongy plastic called polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS, and carbon nanotubes.

Though ultrasound detectors existncluding those used in medical imaginghe researchers made their own sensitive one in the form of a microscopic plastic ring known as a microring resonator.

IBM OLDEN GATECHIP One of these efforts is IBM Synapse Projecthort for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.

Cellulose biomaterials might be used to create biodegradable plastic bags textiles and wound dressings; flexible batteries made from electrically conductive paper;

#Car paint with graphene gets ice off radar domes Rice university rightoriginal Studyposted by Mike Williams-Rice on December 18 2013ribbons of ultrathin graphene combined with polyurethane paint meant for cars can keep ice off of sensitive military

He found the solution in a Houston auto parts store. bought some polyurethane car paint

and GNRS and coated our samples it had all the properties we needed. ab samples up to two square feet were assembled using a flexible polymer substrate polyimide

which was spray-coated with polyurethane paint and allowed to dry The coated substrate was then put on a hotplate to soften the paint

Tour says the researchers have tried also putting GNRS under the polyurethane paint with good results.

It consists of plastic for the housing a conductive coil and a magnet. The challenge is coming up with a design

By adding modified single-atom-thick graphene nanoribbons (GNRS) to thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) the team at Rice made it 1000 times harder for gas molecules to escape Tour says.

The researchers led by Rice graduate student Changsheng Xiang produced thin films of the composite material by solution casting GNRS treated with hexadecane and TPU a block copolymer of polyurethane that combines hard and soft materials.

but a glass bottle until they figured out how to modify plastic to contain the carbon dioxide bubbles.

and in some ways it s the reverse problemhe says. xygen molecules get in through plastic and make the beer go bad.

and combined the RTIL/clay with a small amount of thermoplastic polyurethane to form a membrane sheet that can be cut into various shapes and sizes,

Light hits a shallow tank of liquid plastic and cures it one layer at a time, slowly building up an entire 3d object.

which print layers of melted plastic that then hardens, DLP machines print upside down. The printed object base adheres to a flat metal sheet that slowly raises out of the tank of liquid.

but by and large these objects are made still solely of dumb plastic. This may be about to change thanks to the Voxel8 a printer presented at CES that makes it much easier to blend plastic conductive ink

The only two printing materials currently supported are standard PLA plastic and the silver conductive ink but the startup has said users will be able to upgrade their printer in the future as more functional

that could be printed on glass or transparent plastic. The key innovation, MIT Technologyreview#says, is the alloy of gallium and indium that the scientists discovered.

#Japanese inventor finds solution to global trash problem by converting plastic to oil This Youtube video about the invention of a plastic-to-oil converting machine went viral

We should shun single-use plastic (such as your average PET bottle or disposable container) altogether,

polyethylene, polystyrene and polypropylene##PP, PE,#PS plastics), there is no toxic substance produced and any residue can be disposed of with regular burnable garbage.

Tons of plastic from the US and Japan are#floating in the Pacific ocean killing mammals and birds.

Thankfully, there are those who fully appreciate that plastic has a higher energy value than anything else commonly found in the waste stream.

that leaves 28%of plastic to be buried in landfills or burned. According to Plastic Waste management Institute#data,##effective utilization##includes not just the 20%that is actually recycled,

##If we burn the plastic, we generate toxins and a large amount of CO2. If we convert it into oil,

One kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil. To convert that amount takes about 1 kwh of electricity,

since the makeup of Japanese household waste has been#found to contain#over 30%plastic, most of it from packaging.

and schools to teach people about recycling culture and the value of discarded plastic, spreading the Japanese concept ofmottainai,

##This plastic is every where in the world, and everyone throws it away.####A mountain to climb down The wonderful invention of plastics has spawned a huge problem that we are struggling to solve.

With peak oil looming, things are set to change, but we find ourselves on top of an oil and plastic mountain,

and plastics dependence and help raise awareness of the carbon footprint of its production and use.

Somehow we all know that plastics is a habit we need to kick. But that doesn t seem to make it any easier.

full-color 3d printer Mcor Iris 3d printer Most people think 3d printing involves a machine that either extrudes molten plastic, in a way similar to how a hot glue gun works,

Plastics are the only materials that can be melted, and then quickly hardened in a safe environment that doesn t require a tremendous amount of heat.

#New recyclable plastics discovered by accident A collection of new plastics that are recyclable and adaptable have been developed by researchers

stiff plastics and flexible gels that can mend themselves if torn. The findings, reported in the journal Science, could lead to cheaper and greener cars, planes and electronics.

It is the first time that durablethermoset plastic has been produced in a recyclable form. Dr Jeanette Garcia, from IBM s Almaden Research center in San jose, stumbled upon the first new class of thermosets in many years when she accidentally left one of three components out of a reaction.

That chunk of plastic, produced from unexpectedly simple ingredients, proved to be tremendously hard and stable.

Yet until now, none of this thermoset plastic could be recycled. The potential impact here is said phenomenal

As well as very hard and durable plastics the researchers adapted their procedure to a different monomer and produced flexible, self-healing gels.

and chairs by extruding plastic in layers 0. 3 inches wide. Chairs recently on display at the RAPID conference each took about 2 hours and 30 minutes to print.

or treating the plastic with a chemical like acetone, which is used commonly to make desktop printed items smooth.

The Robox, for example, uses one extruder that prints a large volume of plastic, while a second extruder prints thin strands to add detail.

which would enable a piece of plastic to create the shape by self-folding. The second paper presents designs that show how to build electrical components (such as resistors, inductors, capacitors, sensors and actuators) with self-folding laser-cut materials.

For example, a PVC sheet sandwiched between two films of rigid polyester featuring slits of different sizes contracts

The PVC becomes deformed creating different angles where the edges of the polyester films press against each other.

#Self-healing plastic grows back after damage The newly-developed self-healing plastic can take rather extensive damage

A plastic developed by the University of Illinois is one of the latest plastics developed that regenerates when damaged.

The difference between this plastic and scratch-healing gadgets presently available is the amount of damage that can be tolerated.

The newly-developed self-healing plastic can take rather extensive damage and heal it through a process of regeneration,

but most commonly only out of plastics. Even manufacturers using an advanced version of the technology known as additive manufacturing typically have expanded the material palette only to a few types of metal alloys.

Other projects include printed sensors fabricated on plastic patches that athletes could one day wear to detect concussions and measure violent impacts.

FDM printers melt string-like plastic bit by bit and lay it down in layers to create an object.

Spectrom adds dye to the plastic as it melts, allowing printers to shift between colors. hat we find really innovative in our approach is we went back to the roots of paper printing

and hardens a droplet of liquid plastic on a slide. A computer moves the plate under the laser,

Bug-Inspired'Plastic'Made from Shrimp Shells If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then insects have a lot to be flattered about.

and now two scientists working at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering are looking to replace plastic with a new material based on the hard shells of insects.

Traditional plastics are the children of oil. They are derived from the petrochemical process. Some take thousands of years to naturally degrade

This extends its potential uses beyond consumer plastics and into medical sutures scaffolds and protective burn coverings that dissolve over time Making Shrilk required carefully analyzing the chemistry of insect chitin.

For al fresco driving the central plastic canopy is removable. The Cincinnati guys tell me it can get quite warm with the top in place.

IBM created the chip as part of DARPA's Synapse program (short for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.

is guided to the edge of a clear plastic panel where it is converted then to electricity using thin strips of photovoltaic solar cells.

She ended up with a beaker filled with hard white plastic that was so tough she needed to break the glass to get to the material.

"Polymers, such as plastics and polystyrene, are long chains of molecules connected through chemical bonds. The main failings of these materials are their poor recyclability

But 3-D printers aren't just laying down plastics resins and nanoparticles they're also printing with dough vegetables and even meats.

or China's use of mercury catalysts in the manufacture of plastics. In addition, coal fired power plants, which emit mercury because of its natural presence in coal,

So-called"bioprinters naturally use cells rather than plastics to create organic structures. However this technique can damage the printed cells,

coaxing a cell to envelop a tiny plastic sphere that acts like a resonant cavityhown in green in the micrograph abovehus placing a whole laser within a cell.

and polylactic acid, a biodegradable plastic used in compostable cups and glassware. Nanoparticles made from these polymers have a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic shell.

In that case, both the plastic and the oil-based sauce are hydrophobic and interact together.

hormone-disrupting chemicals used to soften plastics, from wastewater; BPA, another endocrine-disrupting synthetic compound widely used in plastic bottles and other resinous consumer goods, from thermal printing paper samples;

#Carbon nanoballs can greatly contribute to sustainable energy supply Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have discovered that the insulation plastic used in high-voltage cables can withstand a 26 per cent higher voltage

a nanomaterial in the fullerene molecular group, provide strong protection against breakdown of the insulation plastic used in high-voltage cables.

It is sufficient to add very small amounts of fullerene to the insulation plastic for it to withstand a voltage that is 26 per cent higher, without the material breaking down,

than the voltage that plastic without the additive can withstand. Carbon nanoballs can greatly contribute to sustainable energy supply An electrical tree,

otherwise destroy chemical bonds in the plastic. Credit: Anette Johansson and Markus Jarvid"Being able to increase the voltage to this extent would result in enormous efficiency gains in power transmission all over the world,

"Using additives to protect the insulation plastic has been known a concept since the 1970s, but until now it has been unknown exactly

Lina Bertling The Chalmers researchers have demonstrated now that fullerenes are the best voltage stabilizers identified for insulation plastic thus far.

and were added to pieces of insulation plastic used for high-voltage cables. The pieces of plastic were subjected then to an increasing electric field until they crackled.

Fullerenes turned out to be the type of additive that most effectively protects the insulation plastic.

#Contact lens merges plastics and active electronics via 3-D printing (Phys. org) As part of a project demonstrating new 3-D printing techniques Princeton researchers have embedded tiny light-emitting diodes into a standard contact lens

Although tests with bio-based plastics are already on the agenda, the films still consist of polycarbonate also made or of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

In order to create the miniature plastic channels that define the shape, a round film is bombarded vertically with an ion beam.

I did research on conducting plastics for electronic devices. When I moved into the cancer treatments with nanotechnology that's when my mum became really excited about my work.

The actual micro-scallop was made of a relatively hard plastic. The challenge was to make the shells extremely thin

As in the case of their plastic micro-scallop the researchers also envision medical applications for their nanosubmarine.

#Researchers improve thermal conductivity of common plastic by adding graphene coating (Phys. org) A team of engineering

and physics researchers with members from the U s. the U k. and the Republic of Muldova has found that covering a common type of plastic with a graphene coating can increase its conductivity by up to 600 times.

Plastics are not very good conductors of heat they are generally in the 0. 15-0. 24 W/mk range

In this new effort the researchers sought to improve heat conduction in a plastic by applying graphene to its surface.

The type of plastic used PET is very common it's used to make soda bottles and a myriad of other products in a nearly limitless variety of shapes.

which are based on multiscale simulations that will shed light on which sorts of real-world applications the coated plastics might best be used in.

Coating plastic materials with thin graphene laminate films that have up to 600 higher thermal conductivity than plastics may have important practical implications s

The new device uses graphene a recently discovered form of carbon on a flexible plastic backing that conforms to the shape of tissue.

#Nanoengineering enhances charge transport promises more efficient future solar cells Solar cells based on semiconducting composite plastics and carbon nanotubes is one of the most promising novel technology for producing inexpensive printed solar cells.

and polyurethane paint to melt ice on sensitive military radar domes which need to be kept clear of ice to keep them at peak performance.

but can be used to coat glass and plastic as well as radar domes and antennas. In the previous process the nanoribbons were mixed with polyurethane

but testing showed the graphene nanoribbons themselves formed an active network when applied directly to a surface.

They were coated subsequently with a thin layer of polyurethane for protection. Samples were spread onto glass slides that were iced then.

The light in these terahertz wavelengths can pass through materials that we normally think of as opaque such as skin plastics clothing and cardboard.

with the transistor and display processing steps that Plastic Logic has developed already for flexible electronics.

except it is made of flexible plastic instead of Glass in contrast to conventional displays, the pixel electronics,

The new 150 pixel per inch (150 ppi) backplane was made at low temperatures (less than 100°C) using Plastic Logic's Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) technology.

"This demonstration puts Plastic Logic at the forefront of this development, which will soon enable a new generation of ultra-flexible and even foldable electronics"This joint effort between Plastic Logic

or stamped on plastic or paper. For example it might eventually be embed possible to these printed flexible optoelectronic devices into clothes packaging wall papers posters touch screens or even buildings.

"The researchers place the nanowires on the Shrinky Dinks plastic as they would for any other substrate,

"The plastic is clamped before baking so that it only shrinks in one direction, so that the wires pack together

The researchers also can control how densely the wires pack by varying the length of time the plastic is heated.

They also are exploring using lasers to precisely shrink the plastic in specific patterns. Nam first had the idea for using Shrinky Dinks plastic to assemble nanomaterials after seeing a microfluidics device that used channels made of shrinking plastic.

He realized that the high degree of shrinking and the low cost of plastic could have a huge impact on nanowire assembly and processing for applications."

"I'm interested in this concept of synthesizing new materials that are assembled from nanoscale building blocks, "Nam said."

The new material can be applied to a variety of substrates such as plastic, ceramic or metal using conventional techniques such as spraying

They did it-this by adding a very thin plastic sheet around the whiskers and wrapping it around using a metal sheath (the second electrode) after generating nanowhiskers on it (the second electrode and outer covering).

It is padded with polyurethane and synthetic rubber and can depress up to a quarter of an inch dispersing the force of an impact.#

Although the functionality of the hand has been demonstrated to be lifelike the appearance of a hand made of plastics iron tendons

The integrated circuits are manufactured on rolls of one micron thick plastic film making them easily scalable and cheap to produce.

We opted instead for constructing the chassis out of laser-cut acetal plastic a higher-powered flight motor and a new propeller.

and a two-component thermosetting polymer to build up objects on any working surface that the polymer can adhere to including floors walls and ceilings without the need for additional support structures.

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