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US researchers develop shape memory polymer nanocomposites exhibiting fast actuation speed

Using biodegradable polymer, University of Basque country researcher report on bone regeneration

Advanced nanocomposite membrane technology of NanoH2O turns it to a Global clean technology company

Arkema unveils a range of "green" polymers for its textile market

IKV researchers report thermoplastic/metal hybrid materials for Direct manufacturing electronic part

Battelle researchers are improving PLA for injection molding applications

Practical Devices provide useful power from the body

Singapore researchers touts corn starch can help solve body armour and protective sports padding

Plastics help design non-shatter pint glass to prevent pub attacks

Researchers review how to characterize polymer nanocomposites by different microscopicy techniques

Rutgers Univ researchers moves plastic electronics with graphene based PS thin films

Brazilian scientists are actively pursuing bioplastics research and innovation

McMaster university (Canada) researchers developed flexible solar cell technology

Polymer helps to designing higher capacity Li-ion battery

Swedish researchers show highest reported charge capacities for all polymer paper-based battery

Mannigton converts large stickers from 2010 winter games into commercial flooring

In Milan, art and science get together to showcase Vegetal, weather resistant designer chair

Researchers develop unique printable thin film supercapacitor using SWCNT

A team of researchers demonstrate plastics and graphene can work together to make touch screen device a reality

Prof. Alan Heegers group demonstrated the potential of plastics solar cells

Yale scientists develop high performance thin film composite membrane

Researchers gather to discuss advances in organic photovoltaics (OPV)

Plastic Logic sees mass production of flexible display in 2008

MIT researchers show how to draw Polyethylene as nanofibers and get a very high thermal conductivity

How Collagen nanofibers could find use in Tissue Engineering

MIT team aims to develop application specific surgical adhesives to seal tissues

Polymers help Addidas to launch lightest soccer boots and 2010 FIFA World cup match ball never seen before in the field

New ambipolar polymer beats others: reports US researchers

For the first time, IBM researchers showed 3D molecular structure could be observed

Norner touts major research project on polymers based on carbon dioxide

Univ of Texas @ Austin scientists reported method to produce a large scale reduced graphene oxide

Austrian researcher reports new opportunities from Silicon oxide Nanofilms

Scientists from IBM and Stanford University are developing new plastics recycling process

Non-toxic, liquid bandage from Chesson Labs of Durham, NC is ready for the healthcare market

If you follow plastics electronics - follow Unidym’s innovative product lines

A review on polymer/bioactive glass nanocomposites provides current trends in polymer research

Innovations in design come from plastics to win several 2009 International Design Excellence Awards

ZogglesTM earns Invention of the year 2010 award and keeps the fog away

Bayer uses PC film Makrofol? for it's new Innosec Fusion? technology to stop counterfeiting

Princeton university researchers embedded piezoelectric material onto polymer as energy harvester

Braskem S.A. is leading the way to manufacture biobased polyethylene using catalytic dehydration

Alberta scientists help to make Canada’s first bio-composite based electric vehicle body design

Scientists from Sweden and USA showed electronics can truly be organic or say truly be plastics

3D systems introduces non-halogenated flame retardant for aircraft applications

French scientists tout first use of nano-structured assemblies that could revolutionize dentistry

Block copolymers could create hard disks with 10 tera-bit-per-Square-inch:Researchers predict

Siver nanowire electrodes for flexible electronics

Chinese researchers made a bendy polymer that could separate aromatics hydrocarbons from aliphatic

Japanese researchers are developing stereo-block type PLAs for high performance materials

Nanoparticle coating prevents ice build up

Plastic Conferences
Upcoming Events in the Field of Plastics

The Second International Symposium FRONTIERS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

The Second International Symposium FRONTIERS IN POLYMER SCIENCE, 29-31 May 2011, Lyon, France

Following the success of the First International Symposium Frontiers in Polymers Science in Mainz 2009 which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the journal Polymer,  the Second International Symposium FRONTIERS IN POLYMER SCIENCE in association with the journal Polymer has been announced. It will take place in Lyon, France from 29-31 May 2011.

Plenary Speakers:

  • Zhenan Bao, Stanford University, USA
  • Bernadette Charleux, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
  • Geoffrey W. Coates, Cornell University, USA
  • Patrick Couvreur, Université de Paris-Sud, France
  • Joseph De Simone, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
  • Glenn H. Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology, USA, Nobel Laureate
  • Craig Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Jean-François Joanny, Institut Curie, Paris, France
  • Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan
  • Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Axel H.E. Müller, Universität Bayreuth, Germany
  • Anthony J. Ryan, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University, USA
  • Alan H. Windle, University of Cambridge, UK

For more details, visit the website at www.frontiersinpolymerscience.com

 

The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE)s' ASIATEC® Conference

The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) is organizing the Society’s first ASIATEC® Conference, designed as an Asian counterpart to SPE’s renowned ANTEC® in North America.

SPE ASIATEC® will take place February 15-17, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan

The conference will cover subjects such as Nanotechnology, Composites for Automobiles, Packaging Products, Green Plastics and Biomass Plastics, Medical Plastics and

Bioplastics, Polymer Processing, Engineering Properties and Structure, Thermoplastic Elastomers, Optics and Optical Devices, and Life-Support Plastics.

For more information on SPE ASIATEC®, contact the organizing chair, Shinichi Izawa, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; the technical program chair, Takashi Inoue,

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; or SPE’s senior event manager Lesley Kyle, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , +1-203-740-5452

 

PPS 2010 Meeting, Istanbul, turkey

Polymer Processing Society (PPS) 2010 Regional Meeting, October 20 – 23, 2010

Istanbul, Turkey.  For detail: http://www.pps-26ist.com/eng.html  For contact:  http://www.pps-26ist.com

 

The 43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress, 'Macro2010'

MACRO 2010

The 43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress, 'Macro2010', is the latest in the series of the biennial meetings of the IUPAC Polymer Division. The series is the largest international multi-symposium conference dedicated to all aspects of polymer science and engineering.  Macro2010 is organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and hosted by the Pure and Applied Macromolecular Chemistry Group (Macro Group UK), a joint interest group of the RSC and the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI).

Macro2010 themes include:

  • Delivering New Polymers for Service in Society: Advances in Polymer Chemistry
  • Molecular to Macroscopic Behaviour of Polymers
  • Sustainability: Renewable Resources and Environmentally-Friendly Polymers
  • Polymers in Support of Life
  • Functional Polymers for Electronics, Energy and Analysis
  • Polymer Science in Everyday Life
  • Advances in Colloidal and Nanosize Polymer Materials
  • Young Polymer Scientists: Contributions, Nurturing and Networking

  • More can be found
http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/RSCConferences/Macro2010/