Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at MIT, is a founder of the budding field of tissue engineering--of restoring, maintaining and improving tissue by growing it, in vitro, on a biodegradable polymer (plastic) scaffold.

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Canada will soon join a growing list of countries that use a polymer-based plastic instead of paper for its cash.

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Statkraft isn't disclosing its secrets, except to say that its magic membrane is made of a polymer similar to plastic and extremely thin.

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If Stanford University's research into a new plastic polymer bears fruit, though, our scratched-up phones and tablets are more likely to become distant memories.

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One promising way around this problem, being pursued by Philips Polymer Vision, Plastic Logic and other firms, is to make the transistors themselves out of plastic specifically, out of organic polymers.

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The group infused a plastic-like polymer with microscopic capsules containing a liquid healing agent.

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Great Lakes produces bromine-based flame retardants for plastic resins, polymer additives, fine chemicals for drug production and swimming pool chemicals.

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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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After drying and being treated with another solvent, the polymer settles into a regular hexagonal pattern--a kind of plastic-like screen--on the crystalline surface.

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Much of the pollution that exists in the garbage patches is plastic waste that gradually breaks down into short lengths of polymer which absorb other pollutants and accelerate their uptake into the marine food-chain.

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