For a bank manager's son, who moved from the Gwendraeth to Lampeter, Ammanford, Mountain Ash and back to Burry Port and Hendy, before embarking to studying theoretical physics at Cardiff, and then gaining a doctorate in polymer physics in Cambridge, it has been ideal training.
From its urethane foam in the track, polymer fibres in the super-fast hockey pitches, materials in walls, floors and roofs of stadia and insulation technology in the broadcast and electricity wiring cables to technology in the signage in the controversial Games Lanes, the company's hands are all over London 2012.
Another much-debated fix: tiny clumps of polymer lodged in the esophagus to quell heartburn.
The researchers then spray the crystal's surface with a specially designed polymer dissolved in a hydrocarbon-based solvent.
The juice pack is a rechargeable lithium polymer battery in the form of a non-slip, soft grip case and offers the following fantastic features...
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The resistance of a detector changes as the polymer swells in response to its reaction with the odour molecules and thus alters the connections between the particles of carbon black.
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The technology could potentially be used in the high-performance composite polymer materials replacing metal in the new generation of superjumbo aircraft.
The polymer was identified in the 1920s, when Wallace Carothers, the inventor of nylon, worked on it at DuPont.
In other words, this biodegradable polymer material, just a few atoms in size, can target and kill harmful microbes.
Pegasys takes an old hepatitis C drug, interferon, and wraps it in a protective polymer coating of polyethylene glycol (PEG for short) that prevents the interferon from being broken down quickly in the body.
The concept is amazingly simple: A polymer scaffold is designed in the shape of, say, an individual's liver.
Bacteria in such a film are embedded in a polymer matrix, which makes them harder to kill than isolated individuals.
Select S Series models sport a premium and elegant design in Black or White with magnesium and aluminum materials, and all of them incorporate a built-in lithium polymer battery that when coupled with the all new and advanced large-capacity optional sheet battery, you can stay mobile and unplugged for up to 15 hours.
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Pioneered by Australia in 1988, polymer notes have several advantages over paper ones.
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DuPont (nyse: DD - news - people ) brings years of experience in fibers and polymer materials.
The next generation of batteries--so-called lithium-polymer batteries--due in mass quantities sometime around the turn of the century, should extend that even longer.
Neurotech Pharmaceuticals is testing a tiny polymer capsule that is implanted in the back of the eye and continuously pumps out a nourishing protein for six months or longer.
Yang added that there has been intense world-wide interest in so-called polymer solar cells.
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Advances in fields such as polymer research already provide new ways to encapsulate fertilizers and pesticides so they are released slowly.
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Prior to his executive service at Mobil, Dr. Stancell spent the first ten years of his career in research, where he was awarded nine patents in the field of polymer processes and ultrathin membranes.
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Most important, the polymer had to flow through machines already in use.
As the name implies, the atom transfer step is the key step in the reaction responsible for uniform polymer chain growth.
It can also be connected to an external 5-volt Lithium-ion polymer battery for backup power, enabling use in areas where electricity can be inconsistent.
Highly condensed lithium polymer battery delivers an incredible amount of juice in a small form factor and features built in overcharge, short circuit, and temperature protection.
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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.
In this, the electrolyte is a polymer membrane coated with platinum, a metal that acts as a catalyst for the chemistry involved.
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