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Reactive Reports
December 2006
David Bradley |
Plastic Shape Shifter Temperature-controlled triple-shaped plastics that can change shape from one form to another, then another, have been developed by researchers.   |
Technology Research News
April 20, 2005 |
Ultraviolet Shifts Plastic's Shape Researchers have concocted a polymer material that can be switched from one shape to another in the presence of the right wavelengths of ultraviolet light. |
Chemistry World
March 10, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Shape-shifting polymers A US researcher has shown how a so-called shape memory polymer - a material which can take on a temporary shape and then return to its permanent shape in response to an external stimulus - has the unusual ability to 'memorize' a range of different shapes. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2016
Simon Hadlington |
New shape memory polymer with a permanent twist The new kind of polymer's permanent shape can be changed multiple times, with the features from the previous shape remaining locked into the structure. |
Technology Research News
April 6, 2005 |
Water Shifts Rubber's Shape Researchers have developed a material that can be shaped, but changes back to a permanent shape when immersed in water. |
Chemistry World
February 28, 2006
Jon Evans |
Magnetic Appeal of Shape-Change Polymer Polymer scientists developed polymers that change shape in response to a magnetic field by incorporating magnetic iron(III)oxide nanoparticles into a shape-memory polyetherurethane compound known as TFX. |
Technology Research News
February 25, 2004 |
Nanotubes boost shape recovery Researchers have mixed carbon nanotubes with polymer to make a plastic that is good at springing back into shape when heated. The shape memory polymers could be used in practical applications in five years, according to the researchers. |
Chemistry World
March 28, 2012
Fay Nolan-Neylan |
Drug Release Polymer Triggered by Ultrasound Scientists have found that a drug-loaded shape memory polymer can be manipulated by ultrasound and that they can control when and how the drugs are released. |
Science News
July 28, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: A Twist on the Mobius Band Researchers work out the shape of a paper strip. |
Fast Company
February 2014
Kathryn Frances Dodds |
Corvette's Innovation Seedling Corvette is test-driving a shape memory alloy in its 2014 models. |
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. |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2013
Emily Skinner |
Shape memory polymer hosts functional nanoparticles Scientists in China have developed a polymer scaffold for functional nanoparticles that can be folded and mangled but will reform into its original shape if it is placed in water. |
Chemistry World
December 21, 2012
Laura Howes |
DNA hydrogel has a long memory It might look like a pink gloopy liquid to begin with but when you pour Dan Lou's DNA hydrogel into water it spontaneously reforms into its original shape. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2013
Charlie Quigg |
Flat-pack structures build themselves Scientists in the US have developed flat pack structures that can autonomously assemble into three-dimensional shapes on application of an electrical current. |
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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. |
Chemistry World
July 27, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Single polymer pill could deliver entire drug course in one go The prospect of taking an intensive course of drugs can be hard to swallow, but scientists in the US have designed a single pill made from a polymer gel that could potentially deliver an entire treatment in a single dose. |
