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Chemistry World December 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Polymer Chemistry Tackles Implant Concerns Advances in polymer chemistry could help resolve safety concerns surrounding body implants, such as stents to hold open clogged arteries, scientists heard at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting.
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PC Magazine December 13, 2010 Jamie Lendino	Scientists Develop Self-Healing Plastics Resarchers have now figured out a way to build plastic material that heals itself.
Technology Research News June 18, 2003	Nano rapid prototyping advances Rapid prototyping -- using lasers to harden liquid plastic into three-dimensional shapes -- has been around for a couple of decades, but lately researchers have been working to scale the process down to the realm of nanotechnology.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Painted LEDs make screen Spread it on a surface, shine tiny spots of ultraviolet light on it, and voila, a certain type of plastic turns into a full-color, high-resolution, flexible flat-screen display. The simple process could make computer screens much cheaper.
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Technology Research News May 19, 2004	Electricity Turns Plastic Green Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have made a conducting polymer that changes to a very clean green color in the presence of electricity.
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Chemistry World September 18, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Homogenised nanotubes show electronics promise The process uses ultraviolet light and air to produce purified semiconducting nanotubes, which could be valuable in developing the next generation of computer chips.
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Technology Research News February 9, 2005	Nanotubes crank out hydrogen Material made from titanium dioxide nanotubes that is 97% efficient at harvesting the ultraviolet portion of the sun's light and 6.8% efficient at extracting hydrogen from water for use as fuel could be ready for practical use in two to five years.
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Chemistry World November 25, 2010 Hayley Birch	Designing safer stents for heart patients A study by UK researchers provides insights into how the body reacts to the metal stents used to wedge open blocked blood vessels in heart patients.
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Chemistry World November 10, 2011 Helen Gray	Shrinky Dink origami powered by heat US scientists have devised a method of generating 3D structures from flat surfaces by printing patterns onto a polymeric children's toy and letting an IR heat lamp do the rest.