Polymer Engineering
Need prototype built of a brand new invention, which needs to be an intricate electronically controlled (by others} mechanical, polymer device that intergrates with optics {by others}
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According to my understanding, specialty polymers in the engineering polymer to high performance polymer region enjoy a 20-30% price premium over standard polymers of the same type. Do you agree with this?
+12 Other ResponsesHydro And Titan Polymer
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the world welcomed two new polymers in may, codenamed titan and hydro, both of which came from the same reaction. One is rigid; it could become part of the next generation of computers. The other is a gel, so it it could be included in water-soluble nail polish.
Ibm researcher jeannette m. Garcia was among a team of nearly a dozen scientists and researchers who worked for more than a year on this discovery, and they are now submitting their findings to the peer review journal science. Humans have been creating synthetic polymers for the better part of a century, and they can now be found in everything from your steering wheel and favorite polyester suit to your computer and airplanes. But new polymer-forming chemical reactions like this one are extremely rare.
"most [polymer] discoveries were made between 1930 and 1950," garcia told mashable. Polymers are essentially macromolecues made up of 10,000 or more atoms and they occur in nature (rubber) and have been synthesized in the lab (polystyrene). Even though they were created from the same reaction, the two new polymers have distinct characteristics. Titan is, naturally, the stronger one. According to ibm, it has bone-like strength (its measurements were similar to the organic material that frames our bodies) and roughly one-third of the tensile strength of steel. When ibm researchers combined titan with 2% to 5% carbon nanotubes, however, they found they could make a material three times stronger than the polyamides sometimes used on current aircrafts.
Hydro is mostly liquid and quite flexible. It can also "self-heal"; according to garcia, if you cut a blob of the polymer in two and then place the pieces next to each other (but don't force them together), they will combine back into one blob. One application could be for a powerful-on-contact adhesive.
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electrically controlled glasses with continuously adjustable transparency, new polarisation filters, and even chemosensors capable of detecting single molecules of specific chemicals could be fabricated thanks to a new polymer unprecedentedly combining optical and electrical properties. An international team of chemists from italy, germany, and poland developed a polymer with unique optical and electric properties. Components of this polymer change their spatial configuration depending on the electric potential applied. In turn, the polarisation of transmitted light is affected. The material can be used, for instance, in polarisation filters and window glasses with continuously adjustable transparency. Due to its mechanical properties, the polymer is also perfectly suitable for fabrication of chemical sensors for selective detection and determination of optically active (chiral) forms of an analyte.
The research findings of the international team headed by prof. Francesco sannicolo from the universita degli studi di milano were recently published in angewandte chemie international edition.
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