Tag Archives: rubber

A chemical decathlon

Posted by Robert Slinn on March 1, 2020 Comments Off

Fish oil fights weight loss due to chemotherapy – A new analysis has found that supplementing the diet with fish oil may prevent muscle and weight loss that commonly occurs in cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy. Published early online in …

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Slinn Pickings – latest chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on January 14, 2020 Comments Off

Renowned chemist Robert Slinn distils the latest from the world of chemistry What is life? New answers to an age-old question in astrobiology – Biologists have been unable to agree on a definition of the complex phenomenon known as "life." …

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Slinn Pickings – latest chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on January 11, 2020 Comments Off

Chemist Robert Slinn contributes his favorite news snippets from the world of chemistry Watching Protein Folding with LC-MS – Predicting how proteins fold requires either powerful supercomputers or cloud sourcing projects such as [email protected], which uses people’s ability to recognize …

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Spinneret Secret Unraveled

Posted by spinneret on April 12, 2007 1 comment

Spider silk is “pound for pound” stronger than steel and has a greater elasticity than rubber. Such properties would make it a rather useful material for a large variety of medical and engineering applications if only it could be made …

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Rubber Suits You Sir

Posted by David Bradley on December 1, 2006 Comments Off

Military personnel, chemical workers, and others could benefit from a new synthetic rubber material tailored with liquid crystals. The material might be used to make body suits to protect chemical-industry employees from skin exposure to toxic vapors and aerosols, as …

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Plastic shape shifter

Posted by David Bradley on December 1, 2006 Comments Off

Temperature-controlled “triple-shaped plastics” that can change shape from one form to another, then another, have been developed by researchers in Germany and the US. Such materials might find use as switches and actuators in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and in medicine …

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