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Polymer banknotes are printed on a non-porous plastic film, making them more durable than traditional rag-based paper bills.
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HSS' transducer is a 28-micron-thick plastic film that flutters when exposed to an electric field (because it is "piezoelectric").
FORBES: Technology
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Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.
MSN: Reusable shopping bag measure advances
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To start with, it is developing a roll-to-roll process to make amorphous-silicon transistors on plastic film.
ECONOMIST: Just press print
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Nicknamed "Night Robbery" because it has the highest crime rate on the continent, Nairobi is not a relaxed place in which to clear customs with a load of plastic suitcases filled with movie-camera equipment and reels of film.
CNN: The snows of Erukenya
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Using a thin film of polyfluorene, a light-emitting plastic, they have created a laser which reacts with explosive vapour.
BBC: Plastic lasers shed light on hidden explosives
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The film chronicles the work of acclaimed British-Pakistani plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad.
BBC: Pakistan's Oscar triumph for acid attack film Saving Face
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The film begins with 81-year-old Dell'Orefice candidly comparing her plastic surgery to repairing a ceiling that's falling down.
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