To start with, it is developing a roll-to-roll process to make amorphous-silicon transistors on plastic film.
Polymer banknotes are printed on a non-porous plastic film, making them more durable than traditional rag-based paper bills.
HSS' transducer is a 28-micron-thick plastic film that flutters when exposed to an electric field (because it is "piezoelectric").
Postgraduate student Thomas Sinn is working with disks of thin metallic plastic film.
Using a roll of clear plastic film bought at a shipping store, he binds each bag by hand, rotating it on a swivel chair.
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He had had the windows of his car coated with a dark plastic film which reduced visibility in and out of the car to 17%, the Old Bailey heard.
After that, says James Sheats, a researcher at Hewlett-Packard who is also Rolltronics' chief technical adviser, the next step will be to apply Dr Carey's work and make smaller, faster transistors on plastic film.
Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.
In 1991 a boss decreed that Gruber couldn't buy a machine called an extruder, which turns plastic pellets into clear film.
Named as the key to the future in one of the most famous lines from that classic film The Graduate, plastic has long since lost its shimmer, dulled by its costs to our environment.
But Mr. Valdespino says Secure Wrap's film is made of 30% recycled plastic, and he says the company is working on adding a "biodegradable" feature.
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Using a thin film of polyfluorene, a light-emitting plastic, they have created a laser which reacts with explosive vapour.
This is done by encasing them in a thin film of biodegradable material, such as a special plastic.
The film chronicles the work of acclaimed British-Pakistani plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad.
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Nicknamed "Night Robbery" because it has the highest crime rate on the continent, Nairobi is not a relaxed place in which to clear customs with a load of plastic suitcases filled with movie-camera equipment and reels of film.
Case in point: When Kodak wanted to bring out a "single use" disposable camera, people within the company's film division vigorously opposed the move because the inexpensive plastic lenses used meant that the quality of the photographs wouldn't be as good as those taken by 35mm cameras.
At one point, Anaya wears a black body stocking and a white plastic mask, and she looks like some legendary figure from a lyrical silent film.
The film begins with 81-year-old Dell'Orefice candidly comparing her plastic surgery to repairing a ceiling that's falling down.
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Through a campaign of talks and film screenings she persuaded all of the 34 shops in the town to substitute plastic bags with reusable cloth bags.
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