Tufts professor launches program to mentor deaf students in state-of-the-art physics research
...dding tiny impurities to polymer materials to form plastics with greatly improved strength and durability. The program is designed to increase the participation of deaf and hard of hearing students in science, technology and engineering. Cebe is mentoring students from the National Technical Institute for the...New surgical device for long bone repair reduces X-ray exposure
...tion from Muelenaer. Plastics One, a Roanoke based plastics engineering company developed the plastic handle to hold all of the electronic elements of the device. In testing and surgery, the procedure using the device is precise. "The successful design of this product is a tribute to what students can do when...Study: Carbon dioxide may find new use in producing medical implants
...t, the technology could be used in a wide range of plastics that release medicines -- from antibiotics to anti..., the engineers will be working with biodegradable plastics and determine whether the medicine remains effective after being embedded with the supercritical flu...Doctors at Northwestern Memorial are studying next generation surgery for back pain sufferers
...which are both made of metal rather than using any plastics or polymers. Some studies have shown that plastics and polymers can eventually wear down, and the resulting debris and the subsequent tissue reaction t...New breast cancer mannequin to revolutionize teaching of breast cancer awareness
...disability nurses approached University of Warwick plastics engineer Dr Nick Tucker to help them create a teaching aid that would assist them in teaching breast cancer awareness and self inspection to people with learning difficulties. The final result is something that will be of great assistance to all wome...Chemical & Engineering News 80th anniversary issue highlights periodic table
...s and water supplies and its compounds are used in plastics such as polyvinyl chloride. But too much chlorine gas is being released into the atmosphere. Cynthia Burrows, a chemistry professor at University of Utah and senior editor of ACS's Journal of Organic Chemistry . Gold. This element is found free in...Arizona pioneer in plastics wins top chemistry award
...ix decades of research to understand and customize plastics for applications as wide-ranging as food storage a...too precious to simply burn, and indeed the myriad plastics derived from oil make life hard to imagine without them: computer components, automobile dashboards ...Fluorine chemists take their expertise to the sunshine state
...s in areas such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, plastics and polymers, and refrigerants. Members of the division promote their interest in fluorine and its positive impact on society by organizing technical conferences and sponsoring research scholarships. The division's membership is international, with ...New method of delivering chemotherapy using ultrasound works in BYU lab
...and chemistry of drug delivery using water-soluble plastics called micelles. Made of polyethylene oxide and polypropylene oxide, micelles are a self-assembled collection of molecules that spontaneously form tiny plastic spheres when introduced into water. In previous work, Pitt and Rapoport found that an anti...Scientific society offers development sessions for industrial members
...Troy, Mich. Polymer trends: the role of engineered plastics in the automotive industry Monday, April 8, 12:30 p.m. This presentation will explain how and why plastics are currently used in vehicles to save weight, reduce fuel consumption and lower costs for motorists...Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
...chemicals have been transformed into biodegradable plastics and resins. The resins have been tested successful...e combination of abundant wood fibers and recycled plastics is the basis for a new industry manufacturing almost one billion pounds of non-conventional, reinfor...Drugs made from polymers, the stuff of plastics
... made from the same polymers that are the stuff of plastics - was described here today at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Others have used polymers as carrier molecules to deliver drugs and housed drugs within polymer capsules. But this is ...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wins three R&D 100 awards
...fety of food and may replace glass with engineered plastics in electronic display panels. Each year R&D c...ough to roll up like a projector screen. However, plastics are not used for these display panels because oxygen and water vapor easily pass through plastic to ..."Radical" Discovery Advances Medicine and Plastics
...biology and medicine, as well as the production of plastics for everything from children's toys to the space shuttle. The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, will designate Moses Gomberg's discovery of organic free radicals a National Historic Chemical Landmark at a ceremony Jun...Synthetic rubber kills germs on contact
... powder disinfectant. More recently, antimicrobial plastics have been used in consumer products such as toothb...s pads and children's toys. Antimicrobial plastics are composed of polymers mixed with special disinfectants. The plastic slowly releases the disinfect...Material that made car bumpers shine finds a role in manufacture of drugs, dyes
...esthat are used in the manufacture of drugs, dyes, plastics and film. The findings published recently in the chemistry journal AngewandteChemie are part of a research program in combinatorial chemistry, a field wherechemists create and screen thousands or even millions of compoundssimultaneously for a...