International Polymer News

POLYMER GRID TECHNOLOGY A BOON FOR BRIDGES - UW Madison STUDENT NEWSLINK
When the long-awaited Highway 151 bypass around Fond du Lac, Wis., opens later this year, vehicles traveling northbound will cross DeNeveu Creek on a bridge like no other in the country. The concrete deck is reinforced with a novel fiber-reinforced polymer grid system developed by UW civil and environmental engineering professors and graduate students.

Human blood vessels grown from elderly cells - Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... on a sponge-like biodegradable polymer tube ... Greisler of Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois ... the research as an important advance in tissue engineering. ...

Biophan Finalizes Exclusive License to Breakthrough Technology for ... - Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
... nanomagnetic particle coatings), radio frequency filters, polymer composites, thermoelectric ... Scientific (NYSE:BSX) and NASA's Ames Center for Nanotechnology. ...

Pitt State breaks ground on KPRC - Pittsburg Morning Sun - Pittsburg,KS,USA
... was a PSU plastics engineering technology graduate. Tyler said he knows the importance of the research being conducted at the Kansas Polymer Research Center. ...

Arteries bio-engineered from elderly cells - News-Medical.net - World
... from Duke University's Medical Center and Pratt ... professor of both anesthesiology and biomedical engineering. ... a thin sheet of a biodegradable polymer that was ...

Research Highlights - Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
... applications not only in marine engineering but also ... coated with the antifouling polymer remains relatively ... the Hitachi San Jose Research Center in California ...