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IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Neil Savage |
The Erasable Holographic Display New three-dimensional holographic material can be written and rewritten indefinitely, paving the way toward 3-D movies. |
Technology Research News March 26, 2003 Eric Smalley |
3D holo video arrives Researchers from the University of Texas have devised a three-dimensional video system that cuts down the computing power needed to project three-dimensional images by using an 800,000-mirror device designed for two-dimensional digital projectors as a sort of holographic film. |
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 |
Plastic Records Infrared Light Researchers have extended the sensitivity of photorefractive polymers so that they can be used at the common infrared communications frequency of 1550 nanometers. |
Technology Research News October 17, 2005 |
Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions. |
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 |
Light-Recording Plastic Holds up Researchers have made stable photorefractive polymers that promise practical, inexpensive holographic data storage and real-time image processing. |
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 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. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Willie D. Jones |
You Tell Us: Is It a Mirage or Is It Holographic Storage? The idea of using holograms to store data on computers has tantalized engineers since the 1960s, and now it finally looks like it's going to market. |
Scientific American October 2008 Steven Ashley |
Cool Polymers: Toward the Microwave Oven Version of the Refrigerator Getting a bigger chill out of polymers that respond to electric fields. |
Industrial Physicist Dec 2003/Jan 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Infrared tissue scans... Better electronic paper... Rapid manufacturing... Flipping storage fields |
The Motley Fool June 13, 2005 Dan Bloom |
You Think Blu-ray Is Exciting? Holographic data storage, which is being pursued by a small private company called InPhase Technologies, promises to crush Blu-ray in storage capacity. |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography. |
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 November 14, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Polymer Chemists See Double Chemists in Canada have synthesized a new polymer that has a remarkable optical property - it has one of the greatest birefringence values of any solid observed. |
Chemistry World March 21, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Forcing a Reaction US chemists have forced molecules to react by ripping their bonds apart with ultrasound. The scientists carefully stretched one targeted bond until it snapped, guiding the molecule's subsequent reaction into pathways forbidden by conventional chemistry. |
Chemistry World October 19, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Nanoparticles brought to order US researchers have developed a process that could bring the unusual properties of nanoparticles to a larger scale, by using small molecules to evenly space nanoparticles in a polymer composite. |
Chemistry World July 24, 2006 Killugudi Jayaraman |
Plastic Solar Cells Make Light Work Solar cells based on organic semiconductors instead of silicon could potentially turn wall paints into a source of electricity, but their low efficiency is a major roadblock. Scientists now believe they have a new approach to boosting the output from polymer cells. |
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. |
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 |
2D Holograms Make 3D Color Display Researchers have developed a three-dimensional color display that uses a set of six holograms and is made from relatively compact and inexpensive components. |
Chemistry World December 6, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Chemists Make Fullerene Necklace Spanish scientists have strung fullerene buckyballs together to produce a polymer with unique electronic properties. The creation of these polymers has demonstrated a new approach to designing novel materials. |
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. |
Technology Research News June 30, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Holograms enable pocket projectors The method could lead to pocket-sized, battery-powered video projectors that produce images whose quality matches that of today's full-sized projectors. |
Chemistry World September 15, 2011 James Mitchell Crow |
Polymer Side Chains on the Slide Researchers may now be able to create rotaxane polymers whose properties alter in response to chemical stimuli. |
Chemistry World January 21, 2009 Alexander Hellemans |
Quantum shuttling boost for organic solar cells Organic polymers can use a quantum effect to rapidly shuttle light energy along their chains, even at room temperature. |
Chemistry World August 18, 2008 |
Patterning Promise for Next-Gen Computers Breakthroughs in controlling the way polymers self-assemble on surfaces could be key to making the next generation of computer components, say two teams in the US. |
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. |
Technology Research News March 12, 2003 |
Lasers tweeze every which way Researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland have found a way to use a pair of laser beams to rotate an object in three dimensions, turning it like a ball rather than a wheel. |
Chemistry World December 6, 2006 Lionel Milgrom |
Surf's up for Unstable Electron Beams Controlling short high-energy bursts of plasma electrons is difficult. But now physicists in France have managed it, using a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas. |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 |
Light spots sort particles Researchers from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have found a cheap, simple way to sort microscopic particles by size and by refractive index. A material's refractive index has to do with how much it bends light. This technology will likely speed efforts to make labs-on-chips. |
Chemistry World July 13, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Superconductivity: Explosive New Images UK chemists have discovered how to create superconducting images on paper. |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2004 Tim Stevens |
Technologies Of The Year -- IBM Corp.'s Nanotechnology For Semiconductor Processing Polymer molecules that self-assemble will enable smaller, more powerful semiconductor devices for the future. The technology promises significantly reduced feature size, higher component density, improved performance and lower voltage requirements for microelectronic devices. |
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 February 3, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Laser writing makes 'bone like' material Researchers in Germany have used 3D laser lithography to engineer polymer microstructures that mimic the lightweight yet strong properties of cellular materials like wood and bone. |
Reactive Reports September 2005 David Bradley |
Nano Surprise A surprising mechanism by which polymers form nanocomposite particles could provide researchers with a new tool for controlling the growth of such materials. |
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 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 September 8, 2015 Anthony King |
Click chemistry creates precision polymers Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have an efficient strategy that allows them to synthesize a new family of unimolecular, sequence- and stereo-defined polymers using click chemistry. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Poky Plastic Perks Up Materials scientists have invented the first polymer semiconductor to perform almost as well as the type of silicon used to drive flat-panel displays. |
Chemistry World March 20, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Sensitive Polymers Show Drug Delivery Promise Chemists in the US have developed a three-component polymer that can respond to temperature, pH and the presence of a reducing agent. |
Technology Research News July 13, 2005 |
Self-Assembly Goes Around Bends Researchers have found a way a way to make polymer chains automatically assemble in non-regular patterns, including sharp angles. The method could eventually be used to build precise features as small as ten nanometers. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al. |
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives |
InternetNews December 29, 2010 |
IBM's Crystal Ball: 3D, Battery Life Boom Looking ahead to the next five years in technology, IBM predicts that 3D display technology will become pervasive, while batteries lifespan will see a tenfold increase. |
Chemistry World December 11, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Protein threading paves the way for nanomachines A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has discovered how proteins are threaded through pores in cell membranes. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Neil Savage |
Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Speed Flexible Circuits An Illinois company says it has made the first practical complementary polymer circuits. |
Chemistry World May 17, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Non-stick approach to regular polymer vesicles UK researchers have devised a new method for making polymer vesicles |
Technology Research News January 15, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Plastic process produces puny pores The size of the microscopic pores in a material determines how the material scatters the sun's rays and how much light will shine through. Making microscopic pores precisely the right size, however, is tricky. |
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 7, 2011 Andy Extance |
Surface plasmons create vivid holograms Plasmons are "quasiparticles" that are observed when electrons in a metal collectively oscillate at light wave frequency. |