Both the drugs and polymers on the stents may be causing the problems, she says.
How much more efficiently could they be run if Friend's organic polymers replaced silicon?
The idea is to buy shares of companies that make building blocks for polymers.
Lucent Polymers then transformed the boom material into the physical state necessary for plastic die-mold production.
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Part of that program has included creating new types of polymers that have multiple potential applications.
Rahul Rathi (no relation to Adit) has expanded from housing and construction to polymers.
Currently the retail hypermarkets are expanding rapidly with cash generated in polymers and fertilizers.
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Today company has stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, fibers and polymers, forest and consumer products, chemical technology.
His work in drug-releasing polymers eventually led to the creation of a novel way to treat brain cancer.
Plastic circuitry promises as large a market as light-emitting polymers, but the technology is taking longer to commercialise.
When it comes to my briefcases, I typically vastly prefer leather to polymers.
Yet this giant is an eclectic collection of seemingly unrelated pieces--jet engines and lightbulbs, synthetic polymers and Friends sitcoms.
The polymers used can be dissolved in water to form an ink, which can be sprayed on the product.
Westlake Chemical Corp. manufactures and markets petrochemicals, polymers and fabricated building products.
Bayer says it will close 15 plants in its troubled polymers division.
Research ranges from the pursuit of advanced new polymers as covering for cables, to engineering that makes production systems cheaper.
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Anti-corrosion agents have long been an industrial strength in Northeast Ohio given our background in advanced materials, polymers and coatings.
Coatue, which has been working on conductive organic polymers for memory chips, has had major support from Sunnyvale microprocessor maker AMD.
And, while antimicrobials are high on the list of potential applications for these polymers, there are other healthcare applications as well.
The only time this is an exception is when you combine specific types of polymers and metals with specific additive manufacturing processes.
The remaining is a mixture of recycled plastics and other polymers.
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To create the metal rubber, layers of non-conducting polymers are alternated with layers of metal ions, such as gold, silver or platinum.
In fact, all of biology is based on just four sorts of so-called information polymers - proteins, DNA, RNA and also carbohydrates.
Across the world a number of groups are trying to develop synthetic polymers to deliver genes, entirely removing the need to use viruses.
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Conducting polymers are known as intelligent materials with the unique behaviour of trapping an ion into their structure and release the ion by an electric potential.
That means that a whole range of polymers which do not conduct electricity (such as most common plastics) can be brought into play.
Researchers at the University of Arizona and Nitto Denko Technical used a blend of electrically responsive light-scattering polymers to make a holographic videoconferencing system.
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His original 1990 paper on glowing organic polymers, published in Nature, became Friend's most widely cited research, according to Science Watch, which tracks academic research.
The polymers were covered with a thin aluminum coating, but once fed electricity, they began to glow so brightly that light shone through the metal.
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