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Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Tegan Thomas	Hair and polymers click In the search for new haircare products, scientists in the UK have developed a new method to chemically modify hair with polymers.
Chemistry World May 28, 2013 Anthony King	Polymer tied in celtic knots Celtic knots and ancient art have inspired a new way of synthesizing polymers. The slow-motion method of controlling polymer growth produces a single chain that when linked repeatedly, intricately wraps around itself to form a dense structure.
Chemistry World March 2008 Maria Burke	Green Couture Synthetic fibers are back in fashion after an ecological makeover.
Chemistry World October 11, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells.
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.
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Solving a Tangled Polymer Problem Being able to predict how polymer chain interact could help to produce plastics with tailor made properties.
Chemistry World November 26, 2007 Tom Westgate	Scientists Win Cash to Develop Plastic x-Ray Detectors UK scientists have shown for the first time that polymers could compete with silicon for detecting x-ray radiation. Now, a funding boost gives the researchers the chance to work with industry and bring the technology closer to market.
Smithsonian August 2006 Elizabeth Royte	Corn Plastic to the Rescue Wal-Mart and others are going green with "biodegradable" packaging made from corn. But is this really the answer to America's throwaway culture?
Chemistry World May 28, 2012 Simon Hadlington	New shape for cross-linked polymers Researchers in the US and France believe they have found a new way to impart malleability into cross-linked polymers containing multiple double bonds.
Chemistry World September 11, 2009 Tom Bond	Just heat and heal A polymer system based on weak, reversible bonds that can heal itself when heated has been created by UK and US chemists. The new polymers could be further developed and used in the aerospace and other industries, say the researchers.
Chemistry World March 21, 2014 Hamish Crawford	Waste plastics unzipped into useful chemicals A team from Northland College in Wisconsin, and from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, have developed a way to depolymerize polyesters and polycarbonates into diols and methanol, using ruthenium based pincer catalysts.
Chemistry World May 16, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Switching Off Polymerisation in the Dark With summer in full swing, the world of polymer science is about to get a boost following news that sunlight can kick-start living polymerisation reactions. The twist is that the reaction stops in the dark.
Chemistry World July 22, 2014 Charlie Quigg	Polymer changes color in the heat of the moment Scientists in China, the UK and the Netherlands have engineered a polydiacetylene polymer that reversibly changes color within 1 second of being heated or cooled.
Chemistry World March 23, 2015 Sonja Hampel	Flexible polymer threads set to light up clothing Fashions on the catwalk could soon become a whole lot funkier with the development of new light-emitting threads that can be knitted or woven into textiles.
Chemistry World November 10, 2006 Victoria Gill	Healing Threads Spun From Living Cells Researchers have successfully made microthreads from polymers containing living cells, using a technique called electrospinning. These biologically active threads could be formed into medical scaffolds, to deliver cells directly to tissue and promote healing.
Chemistry World March 8, 2009 Nina Notman	Polymer Crossroads Act as Tiny Reactors Scientists in the US have taken inspiration from a Dutch painter to create ultrasmall chemical reactors at the junctions of overlapping polymer nanofibres
Chemistry World October 5, 2006 Victoria Gill	Polymer Chemists Tap the Body's Organs The strained tendons and ligaments that end many sporting careers could be repaired with polymers made from our own digestive chemicals. Researchers have devised a chemical method to make degradable elastomers -- polymers with elastic properties -- using bile acid.
Chemistry World May 6, 2009 Nina Notman	Polymers feel the force A new way to make force-sensitive polymers that respond to stress by changing colour has been designed by a multidisciplinary team in the US.
Chemistry World April 30, 2007 Lewis Brindley	New Superabsorbents to Clean up Future Oil Spills Chemists in Japan have developed a new class of superabsorbent polymers that can swell to hundreds of times their weight by soaking up nonpolar organic solvents.
Chemistry World February 15, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Worms' diet the key to coloured silk Scientists in Singapore have found out how to produce coloured silk based on the diet fed to silkworms.
Chemistry World January 12, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Composites Reinforced in 3D A method that uses magnetic fields to align tiny structural elements within a polymer matrix has been developed by scientists in Switzerland.
Chemistry World October 15, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Long-life light illuminates cells The new dye, based on platinum, will carry on emitting light long after any interfering 'autofluorescence' from naturally occurring molecules in the cell has fizzled out.
Chemistry World August 2006 Andrew Scott	Down on the Plastics Farm Soaring oil prices could see biomass become competitive as a source for chemicals traditionally derived from petroleum.
Chemistry World March 20, 2006 Jon Evans	Polymer Matches Silicon in Semi-Conductor Stakes Materials scientists have developed a semi-conducting polymer that, for the first time, conducts electricity at levels similar to conventional silicon-based semi-conductors.
Chemistry World February 25, 2013 Jon Cartwright	Crystals of polystyrene Chemists in Japan and Italy have created a polymer-based material that has a crystalline structure. The material, which achieves its crystallinity with crosslinks between its polymer chains, is expected to have a high mechanical strength.
Chemistry World February 5, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Crystalline polymers make airtight films Squeezing polymers into extremely thin layers can make them a whole lot less gas-permeable, US scientists have shown.
Chemistry World January 31, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Ketene comes in from the cold The ketene group, -C=C=O, is capable of rich and diverse chemistry, says Craig Hawker of the University of California, Santa Barbara
Chemistry World April 27, 2010 Hayley Birch	All clear for e-paper Nanostructured materials have been used by Japanese researchers to make electronic displays that have some of the highest levels of reflectance yet seen.
Chemistry World June 1, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Structural order gained over conducting polymer Scientists in Canada and the US have shown how it is possible to assemble ordered arrays of short chains of a commercially important conducting polymer on a metal surface.
Chemistry World December 7, 2015 Emma Stoye	Dress dye analysis points to fast-moving fashion in 19th century A chemical analysis of the purple threads from silk dresses dating back to the 19th century has shed new light on the early trade and manufacture of synthetic dyes.
Chemistry World December 8, 2014 Elisabeth Ratcliffe	Spinach chlorophyll activates polymer production line Inspired by nature, scientists in Australia have united light and chlorophyll to generate a range of polymers that have biomedical applications.
Chemistry World April 30, 2015 Simon Hadlington	Floppy polymer defies convention to form rigid framework Chemists in the US have turned received wisdom on its head by using floppy, linear polymers to construct a rigid, crystalline, three-dimensional metal -- organic framework.
Chemistry World April 21, 2015 James Urquhart	Plant-inspired plastics take shape Shape-shifting plastics which respond to external stimuli, similar to how Venus flytraps ensnare prey and touch-me-nots fold their leaves inwards when touched, have come a step closer thanks to a new polymer.
Chemistry World April 15, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Polymer lubricant may stave off knee surgery A synthetic polymer could make a better replacement lubricant for joint cartilage in people with arthritis, US researchers claim. The polymer is not broken down in the body like currently used replacement lubricants.
Chemistry World June 14, 2011	Polymers Nanobrushes 'Paint' the Mona Lisa in 3D Chinese scientists have used polymers nanobrushes to 'paint' a 3D representation of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa.
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.
Chemistry World September 1, 2011 Laura Howes	Green fire retardant swells to suppress flames Jamie Grunlan's team at the University of Texas A&M, US, has used layer by layer deposition to coat fabrics with a thin, environmentally benign, fire retardant layer of polymers.
Chemistry World April 28, 2011 Laura Howes	Polymer collapses in a flash Researchers in the Netherlands have created a polymer that folds up like a protein on exposure to light.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	Polymers that Shift and Shape Georgia Tech researchers develop smart materials for biomedical applications.
Chemistry World November 5, 2013 Jason Woolford	Hole hopping in solar cells Researchers in the UK, Spain and Switzerland say a method they have developed for probing electron transfer reactions could help them design more efficient solar cells.
Chemistry World February 20, 2014 Laura Howes	Brent Sumerlin: Searching for a sweet response Brent Sumerlin is professor of chemistry at the University of Florida in Gainesville, US. His research concerns the identification, synthesis, and characterization of smart polymers for drug delivery.
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.
Chemistry World July 11, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Spin Doctors Find New Way to Make Skin Scaffold Researchers have developed a new type of polymer scaffold support for growing cultured human skin cells. The team showed that the mechanical and geometric properties of the scaffold are far more important than any specific chemical property.
Chemistry World October 16, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Colorful polymers on demand Electrochromic compounds are those which can change color in response to electrical signals, but they have previously come with a high price tag and slim range of available colours.
Food Processing December 2007 David Feder	It's Easier Being Green Sometimes, the wellness element of a food or beverage is what's on the outside.
Food Processing September 2007 Kate Bertrand Connolly	Move to earth-friendly packaging A new generation of packaging materials makes it difficult not to go green.
Chemistry World December 5, 2014 Matthew Gunther	Shining a light on rewritable paper Rewritable paper that does not use ink but instead uses dyes that respond to ultraviolet light has been developed by US scientists.
Chemistry World July 20, 2006 Victoria Gill	Polymer Boosts Battery Power It might seem like a defibrillator and a hybrid car have very little in common, but researchers developed a polymer that could have a profound effect on them both.
Chemistry World July 8, 2009 Lewis Brindley	New solution for dye wastewater pollution Stopping chemical dye waste from polluting rivers and waterways could be much easier in future, thanks to a cheap and recyclable metal oxide cleaning system developed by researchers in the US and China.
Chemistry World August 3, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Weaving with bacteria Bacteria-packed fabrics that can suck pollutants out of water have been made by American researchers.