It's made from a blend of cotton and a new polymer made from corn.
The undercoat is made of a polymer that acts like the glue on a Post-it note.
Statkraft isn't disclosing its secrets, except to say that its magic membrane is made of a polymer similar to plastic and extremely thin.
The compact battery in Apple's iPods relies on a polymer made by Kureha, which holds 70% of the market, and whose factory was damaged.
These are then sewn into a very small (1.22mm wide) lead made of a polymer yarn and wires, which are then inserted into the spine.
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Dr Claus has already used this process to make a flexible kind of photovoltaic cell, made from alternating polymer and ceramic layers, that can be sewn on the outside of a tent.
Carpets made with this new polymer accept dye more easily and resist stains better than carpets made with petrochemicals.
With the new inflatable kind the sheets, made from a stronger polymer, are collapsed to form rows of seven uninflated bubbles connected laterally.
In one type of laryngoplasty, an implant made of a surgical polymer is placed inside the tracheal wall (as support) to medialize the affected vocal cord.
Made from a flexible polymer film suffused with fluorescent particles, the prototypes catch only a specific wavelength of light and shoot it to an array of sensors that surround the sheet's edge.
Recently, researchers at the Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa created an artificial retina made of a biocompatible photovoltaic polymer.
Elsewhere in the cornfield, DuPont is trying to make part of its new polymer Sorona, now made with an expensive petrochemical process, out of corn.
The fibers are made by rolling conducting and insulating polymer films around a copper wire, which are then heated to about 200 degrees C (about 400 degrees F) and stretched out until soft and elastic.
The stock market currently is focused on new stents being developed by Guidant (nyse: GDT - news - people ) and Medtronic (nyse: MDT - news - people ), but these stents are based on the same idea as those that are currently on the market: They are made of steel, coated with a polymer.
It's a blend of cotton and polylactide, a polymer derived from dextrose, which can be cost-effectively made from corn.
The two electrodes, cathode and anode, are separated by a polymer electrolyte membrane which permits protons to cross to reach the cathode while the electrons are made to flow as part of a circuit to carry an electrical current.
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