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CONDUCTING POLYMERS: A BRIDGE ACROSS THE BIONIC INTERFACE
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Inherently conducting polymers (ICPs) exhibit a variety of dynamic behaviors that make them an exciting platform for a new generation of bionic devices.
Bionics - the quest to interface the worlds of biology and electronics to improve human performance - is a fascinating and challenging field of research. One of the most successful bionic devices developed to date is the cochlear implant (1), wherein nerve cells located in the cochlea are reconnected to the world of sound using a 22ele...
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CONDUCTING POLYMERS: A BRIDGE ACROSS THE BIONIC INTERFACE
Chemical Engineering Progress
; Inherently conducting polymers (ICPs) exhibit a variety of dynamic behaviors that make them an exciting platform for a new generation of bionic devices. Bionics - the quest to interface the worlds of biology and electronics to improve human performance - is a fascinating and challenging field of
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Great expectations. (conducting polymers)
Chemistry and Industry
; Simon Hadlington reviews the wealth of research into conducting polymers and their advance towards the marketplace. Electrically conducting polymers have attracted a huge amount of attention since their discovery barely two decades ago. Possibly the most exciting developments are the prospect of a
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Future brightens for conducting polymers. (commercial applications for electronically conductive polymers)
Science News
; ... other fabrics in this way makes them conductive without affecting their texture or strength, Kuhn reports. Kuhn told SCIENCE NEWS that electrically conductive textile composites like these could prove useful as electromagnetics screening materials for securing ...
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Can it do the job? PP has its backers.(Brief Article)
Plastics News
; A decade ago, Americans may not have imagined that injection molded car cups would supersede disposable paper for their trips home from the drive-through. Now thermoformers hope to change the market again, and their weapon to challenge injection molded polyethylene and polystyrene cups and
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Conducting polymers: Gearing up for a bright future
High Performance Plastics
; The world market for conducting plastics is expected to be in the region of 300 000 tonnes, or around US$2 billion by the year 2000: a sizeable fraction of this market could be filled by intrinsically conducting polymers (ICPs). Neste is one company currently working on melt processable ICP blends,
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Conducting polymers and polymer electrolytes--from biology to photovoltaics.(Book Review)
Chemistry and Industry
; Conducting polymers and polymer electrolytes--from biology to photovoltaics Judith Rubinson and Harry Mark Jr (eds) Washington: American Chemical Society, 2003 Conducting polymers have still to make a large commercial impact, but these reports of ingenious studies from the ACS meeing in March 2003
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Plastic electric: lining up the future of conducting polymers.
Science News
; For the last century, technology has blossomed in an age of plastics. We drive cars with plastic parts, we wear eyeglasses with plastic lenses, and we sip mineral water from plastic bottles. Plastic cell phones connect us to family and friends, and plastic keys typed these very words. Plastics may
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Down to the wire: conducting polymers enable new sensors. (data acquisition).
Scientific Computing & Instrumentation
; In general, sweeping generalizations are bad things. However, the hallmark of a good scientist is the ability to extract common generalities from a large collection of items that appear to be different. This ability leads to landmark developments such as the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the
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Dramatically new PP alloys, copolymers. (polypropylene)
Plastics Technology
; Dramatically New PP Alloys, Copolymers When Himont R&D research scientist Gordon Brewer gave a technical paper at NPE on Himont's new Hivalloy polymer grafting technology, he couldn't even use the name Hivalloy. It was one of the quieter introductions of a major new alloying technology, made
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Welch Foods chooses PP for packaging.(polypropylene)(Brief Article)
Plastics News
; Welch Foods Inc. has become the first major fruit juice company to offer a polypropylene bottle to replace glass for its 10-ounce fruit juice package. PP beat out PET because it was cheaper, said Edward H. Lerner, Welch's manager of research and development and package process development. Lerner
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